A familial hypercholesterolemia registry as the main tool for adequate management of the disease.

Unlabelled: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common, but poorly diagnosed autosomal-dominant genetic disease which increases the cardio-vascular risk.

Aim: To evaluate the experience of FH registry conducted in Karelia Republic.

Methods: FH registry in Karelia is existing from 2004, it includes 350 patients with heterozygous FH (110 with definite FH), the mean age is 48 ± 2.