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

Bulgaria

Country leaders: Assoc. Professor Arman Postadzhiyan, MD, PhD, FESC

Professor Assen Goudev, MD, FESC

Contacts: armanp@abv.bg a.goudev@care-bulgaria.org

Population: 7 202 198

Estimated number of FH patients: 14 000 (prevalence 1:500)

Number of patients in the database: 650

National center: Saint Anna University Hospital, 1, D.Mollov str, Sofia, Bulgaria

Other centers: 6

Lipid network in country: doesn’t exist

FH programme: started in acute cardiac care units

Criteria: Dutch lipid clinic network diagnostic criteria