Country leader: Professor Gyorgy Paragh, MD,
Assoc. Professor Mariann Harangi
Contact: paragh@belklinika.com, mharangi@hotmail.com
Population: 9 849 000
Estimated number of FH patients: 19 698 (prevalence 1:500)
Number of patients in the database: 394
National centres: Medical Center, University of Debrecen (Prof. György Paragh), Semmelweis University, Budapest (Prof. István Karádi)
Other centers: 18
FH programme: 2 national centres are able to perform genetical examination, the examinations are sponsored from scientific grant
Lipid network in country: doesn’t exist, but it’s in development, FH registry was just developed – next step will be a pilot study and according to the experience of the study the programme will be applied in country or modified if needed
Criteria: Dutch lipid clinic network diagnostic criteria