My name is Kristen Gradney, and I am the Senior Director of Children’s Health at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My husband, Chad Gradney, was diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in 2013.
I’m also a mother to the two most amazing children, … Read More →
The Family Heart Foundation is dedicated to saving more families, more hearts. Today we launched our new awareness campaign to reach people who know they have heart disease or that it “runs in the family” but don’t know that it is caused by a genetic cholesterol disorder. Their condition could … Read More →
Summer is upon us and that means it’s vacation season. There is no reason that familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) or elevated lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), should interfere with making amazing memories and adventuring all over.
As long as you make the appropriate preparations, you can be sure your vacation … Read More →
Family Heart Foundation Study Shows Increased Rate of Cardiovascular Events Among Individuals with High Lipoprotein(a)
Results Highlighted in Poster Presentation at the European Atherosclerosis Society Congress
MILAN, ITALY, May 22, 2022 – The Family Heart Foundation today announced study … 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 →
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 →
My name is Courtney Riley and I am a pediatrician in central Vermont. My family has elevated Lipoprotein(a), also known as Lp(a), an incredibly common but under-diagnosed genetic condition that can lead to strokes and heart attacks. Until recently this was just another fact about us. The way I saw … Read More →
Everyone gets dealt their own hand of cards in the game of life. I inherited two different genetic disorders that each lead to atherosclerosis; a mutation that causes high Lipoprotein(a) and a mutation that causes high LDL Cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. This means that that from birth, high levels of … Read More →
