National Dyslipidemia Registry of the Spanish Arteriosclerosis Society: Current status.

INTRODUCTION: Clinical registries are a very effective tool to verify the usual clinical practice, to compare clinical strategies and to improve the knowledge of diagnostic and therapeutic new procedures.

METHODS: The National Registry of Dyslipemias of the Spanish Society of Arteriosclerosis (SEA) is an on-line, retrospective and prospective database where the different Spanish lipid units accredited by the SEA introduce data from patients with disorders of lipid metabolism.

RESULTS: The registry was created in 2013, and since then clinical, analytical, genetic and evolutionary data of 4,449 patients have been introduced until June 2017. In the last year the registry has given rise to a considerable number of international publications and there are several more in progress. An ambitious incentive plan for inclusion of patients has been initiated to get the SEA registry as a global reference that helps to improve the knowledge and clinical management of these patients.

CONCLUSIONS: From the coordinating group of the registry we encourage all SEA partners to collaborate in the multiple forms that the registry allows, and to make it an international scientific reference.