Country leader: Professor Nebojsa Tasic, MD, MSc,
Assoc. Professor Katarina S. Lalic, MD, PhD
Contact: nebtasa@yahoo.com, klalic@sbb.rs
Population: 7 186 862
Estimated number of FH patients: 14 373 (prevalence 1:500)
Number of patients in the database: 900
National centres: Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases; Department for Lipid Disorders; Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade
Other centres: 0
Lipid network in country: doesn’t exist/in development
FH programme: there isn´t any national FH programme in Serbia at the moment; screening, diagnosis and treatment of patients with FH are based in one lipid center, patients with FH are referred to this center mostly from primary health care levels (GPs)
Criteria: Dutch lipid clinic network diagnostic criteria
LDL apheresis: available
Number of LDL apheresis centres: 2