Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society

9:30 am

Professor Pascal McKeown:

There are also genetic forms of cholesterol problems as well, familial hypercholesterolemia, which probably affects about 1 in 500 of the population. Other European countries have taken the population approach to this whereby all children are screened for hypercholesterolemia and appropriate treatments are started in childhood. This is about moving upstream to try to prevent rather than waiting until the disease has started. There are European countries which have developed additional models and we could learn-----