When you go to the doctor, you often get more time with your nurse or nurse practitioner than you do with the doctor. Nurses are an invaluable member of your healthcare team, and on May 6 we celebrate National Nurses Day.
In recognition of this day, the Family Heart Foundation would like to shine … Read More →
March 24th was the first ever Lipoprotein(a) Awareness Day, and my conversations about it went something like this:
Me: Did you know today is Lp(a) Awareness Day?
Friend: What’s that?
Me: Elevated Lp(a) is a common genetic cholesterol disorder that I have.
Friend: Wait. I thought you had … Read More →
Chances are you do not know if your Lipoprotein(a) level is elevated because it has never been measured. Lipoprotein(a), also known as Lp(a), is a particle in the blood that carries cholesterol and resembles LDL except that it includes an extra protein [apolipoprtotein(a)] that adds risk. Elevated … Read More →
Susan Riley’s personal journey with elevated Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), has just begun, but her immediate family’s been living with it for years.
Riley got her own Lp(a) test results back recently – just in time for the first-ever Lipoprotein(a) Awareness Day. She was surprised to learn her levels … Read More →
This March, our Founder and Chief Executive Officer Katherine Wilemon and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mary McGowan embarked on a nationwide series of 33 TV and radio interviews to discuss a silent, undetected cause of cardiovascular disease: elevated Lipoprotein(a).
They wanted to get the word out across … Read More →
Russ L. has been living a perfectly normal, happy life. He’s a business owner, married to his high school sweetheart for 10 years, and father to three young children in small town Willow Spring, North Carolina.
At 32 years old, Russ says his overall medical history was pretty uneventful. He never … Read More →
Name a cholesterol-lowering treatment, Patricia Young has done it – and was probably among the first to take it. At 67 years old, Young may be the oldest person living with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) in the U.S. “I’ve been going through the history of this disease in one … Read More →
When family members know to test for elevated Lipoprotein(a), it can empower the people we love to understand their risk for heart disease and stroke.
At age 30, Gail Titus found herself scared, bewildered, and heartbroken. Her father had a fatal heart attack at the age of 58. She wondered if the … Read More →
I lived with Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) for my whole life, but didn’t learn about my diagnosis until I was thirty-five (35) years old. There were so many warning signs along the way that were missed or ignored, and I want to share my story so that it doesn’t happen to someone else.
When … Read More →
Growing up, every one of us has lost something special to us. For many people that special thing could be a sentimental object like a childhood toy, or a family pet.
But what we don’t expect as part of growing up, is losing a family member. For me, I almost lost my father to heart disease before … Read More →
