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Article: DHA Lowers Blood Triglycerides in Diet Study
- Article from:
- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
- Author:
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High blood levels of fats known as triglycerides may increase risk of heart disease. So may an unhealthy ratio of the good HDL cholesterol to the bad LDL cholesterol. Coronary heart disease that can result from these or other factors kills more Americans than any other disease.
Scientists with the Western Human Nutrition Research Center have seen triglyceride levels go down in volunteers who ate meals supplemented with a moderately high level of DHA, a polyunsaturated fatty acid. DHA is short for docosahexaenoic (DOE-coe-suh-hex-uh-noy-ick) acid. The center, part of USDA's Agricultural Research Service, is in San Francisco, California.
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