“No one will accept that a patient with type 1 diabetes is not diagnosed and treated in time, and yet this is what is happening in France for familial hypercholesterolemia. Patients’ families, patients’ associations… We are angry.” Lionel Ribbs, president of the National Association of Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Lipoproteins (Anhet), was diagnosed at age 18 for this inherited genetic disease that increases the risk of cardiovascular accidents, particularly heart attacks. Young, athletic – he was involved in athletics in competitions – without any special symptoms, however, the level of cholesterol in the blood was 4.6 grams, when the norm is below 2 grams… The same observation in his brother, then in his own daughters. almost 5 grams of total cholesterol at age 3.
Familial hypercholesterolemia is characterized by an excess of bad cholesterol (LDL) in the blood from birth, as opposed to…
Source: Le Figaro
