What is Heart of the Family?
Heart of the Family is a new campaign created to help break family cycles of early heart
disease and death from Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH). Heart of the Family aims to
increase awareness of FH to encourage earlier diagnosis and testing of family members as
prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment can help save lives. For most people with FH, it is an inherited condition where an altered gene causes exceptionally high cholesterol levels in the blood.1 FH runs in families and is passed from a parent to their child and can usually be traced over several generations.2
Watch Bryan’s story on the big screen
On Saturday 6th February at 11am, come and meet Bryan and his family. Bryan has been diagnosed with FH, as has one of his sons. Hear his story and watch a short film to learn what life with FH is really like.
This event is taking place:
On Saturday 6th February
From 11.00am-11.30am
At the ODEON, 42-44 King St, Maidenhead, West Berkshire, SL6 1DY
Heart of the Family is sponsored and funded by Sanofi UK with endorsement from HEART UK – The Cholesterol Charity
References
1. Heart UK. Familial Hypercholesterolaemia. Available at: http://heartuk.org.uk/fh-familial-hypercholesterolemia
[Last accessed October 2015].
2. Heart UK. Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: An educational booklet for people with familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Available at: http://heartuk.org.uk/files/uploads/HeartUK_FH_LowResFINAL2015.pdf [Last accessed October 2015].
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