Country leader: Tomas Freiberger, MD, PhD
Contact: tfreiber@med.muni.cz
Population: 10 538 275
Estimated number of FH patients: 21 077 (prevalence 1:500)
Number of patients in the database: 9 070
National centres: General University Hospital in Prague, St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno
Other centres: 65
Lipid network in country: functional
FH programme: based on MedPed approach, functional network of centres, support of Czech Atherosclerosis Society, online nationwide database, activity of coordinator who keeps centres informed and helps them with inserting patients’ data into database, availability of DNA diagnostics
Criteria: MedPed, Dutch lipid clinic network diagnostic criteria might be applied as well
LDL apheresis: available
Number of LDL apheresis centres: 2