Introduction Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease, a genetic disease of lipoprotein metabolism, mainly due to a defect in the LDLR gene encoding the LDL receptor.– The diagnosis is established by clinical and laboratory criteria and should always be a diagnostic hypothesis in patients with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLc) levels greater than 190 mg/dL; and can be confirmed by genetic tests that determine the mutation., Some diagnostic criteria have been proposed in an attempt to standardize and […]