Brazil’s Initial Experience in Widening Awareness of Familial Hypercholesterolemia with Patients Associations

Abstract

In this paper we describe the steps taken for broadening the publical, midiatic and all heart professional awareness in Brazil of Familial Hypercholesterolemia and the cardiovascular risk it carries, carries encompassing the strategic plan, advocacy, its purpose, how the Brazilian Familial Hypercholesterolemia Patients Association was born, this mission, objectives, and the reality of familial hypercholesterolemia patients in Brazil.