Hi. I'm Seth Baum, a preventive cardiologist and clinical lipidologist in Boca Raton, Florida. I'm also the past president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology and on the faculty at the Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.



I'm happy to be here today to talk about familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), and specifically homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) and heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). However, before getting into that, I want to first recommend a wonderful website that can help clinicians and patients alike understand FH, work through insurance issues that can sometimes occur with certain medications, and access collateral materials and patient support groups: TheFHFoundation org. I highly recommend you go there and avail yourself of their excellent resources.