Editor's Note: Relates to: ‘Familial hypercholesterolaemia is underdiagnosed and undertreated in the general population: guidance for clinicians to prevent coronary heart disease : Consensus Statement of the European Atherosclerosis Society ’

(https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/eht273)

The Editors and authors wish to acknowledge that the information presented in Figure 1 about Switzerland has been cast into doubt as it has not been formally published in a data set but communicated verbally by an officer of the WHO to the senior author. Therefore, please also consider the data published by Miserez et al. (Miserez AR, Martin FJ, Spirk D. Diagnosis and Management Of familial hypercholesterolemia in a Nationwide Design (DIAMOND-FH): Prevalence in Switzerland, clinical characteristics and the diagnostic value of clinical scores. Atherosclerosis. 2018 Oct;277:282-288. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.08.009.)