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

Anita LR Saldanha; Patrícia Vieira de Luca; Tania Leme da Rocha
Martinez; Maria Cristina de Oliveira Izar

Opinion

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

Anita LR Saldanha¹, Patrícia Vieira de Luca¹, Maria Cristina de Oliveira Izar², Tania Leme da Rocha Martinez¹*

¹Nephrology Department, BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, Brazil

²Lipid Department - Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP, Brazil

Corresponding Author

Received Date:October 13, 2021; Published Date:November 12, 2021

Summary

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.

Keywords:Familial hypercholesterolemia; Patients associations; Midia; Public awareness; Advocacy; Stakeholders

Abbreviations:FH: Family Hypercholesterolemia; FHPA: Familial Hypercholesterolemia Patients Association

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Anita LR Saldanha, Patrícia Vieira de Luca, Maria Cristina de Oliveira Izar, Tania Leme da Rocha Martinez etc all... Brazil’s Initial Experience in Widening Awareness of Familial Hypercholesterolemia with Patients Associations. On J Cardio Res & Rep. 6(1): 2021. OJCRR. MS.ID.000630.

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Opinion

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

Summary