ScreenPro FH
Screening Project for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe

Uzbekistan

Country leader: Professor Alexander B. Shek, MD

Contact: shek-999@mail.ru

Population: 31 025 500

Estimated number of FH patients: 62 051 (prevalence 1:500)

Number of FH patients in database: 252

National centre: Republican Specialised Center of Cardiology (RSCC), Tashkent, Osyo

Other centres in country: RSCC had 12 branches in 13 regions of Uzbekistan

Lipid network in country: doesn’t exist/in development

FH programme: in development

Criteria: Dutch lipid clinic network diagnostic criteria