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We are delighted to announce our forthcoming FH European Network Annual Meeting: Building the Future Together, which will take place in Lisbon on 5 and 6 November 2022. We plan to host it as a hybrid event with 2 distinctive parts. We will kick off with a set of open to public webinars covering disease […]

Like every year, September 24 marks the international FH Awareness Day. This year, we shine light on challenges faced by women living with inherited high cholesterol. Together with medical experts, patient advocates and our partner MEDizzy, we will explain how FH affects women and diagnosis, treatment and other fundamental life decisions and choices, like the […]

The international FH community welcomes warmly the Czech Presidency of the European Union Let’s prevent the preventable together. Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), in simple terms means very high cholesterol, which runs in families. It is a common inherited condition that brings a greatly increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) early in life. In Europe approximately 2.5 […]

In the June edition of FH Europe’s Heart Beat newsletter you’ll find the following: News of our Chief Executive joining a list of stakeholders to contribute to events and initiatives run by The European Medicines Agency. An update from Portugal that the Association of Portuguese Patients of Familial Hypercholesterolemia has published an article about FH […]

The European Commission today presented a new initiative to reduce non communicable diseases (NCDs) across the EU, Healthier Together.  NCDs represent 80% of the disease burden in the Member States. Complementing the already existing Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission is addressing the main NCDs in a newly ambitious and systematic approach. During the high-level […]

In the May edition of FH Europe’s Heart Beat newsletter you’ll find the following: News that The Lithuanian Heart Association (LHA) is now a member of our growing network. The launch of our international survey on women and FH with Erasmus University Medical Center and the Dutch expertise centre FH. An update on FH Europe’s […]