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Article: Fatty acid from fish oil fights arrhythmias, sudden death.
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- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- May 12, 2002
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2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Daily supplements of a fatty acid found in fish oil halves the risk of sudden death in heart attack survivors, researchers report in the April 9, 2002, Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Previous research has found that eating oily fish such as tuna and salmon can reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death caused by a particular type of irregular heartbeat. This study suggests fish oil supplements, rather than dietary fish oil, could be a therapy without side effects for heart patients.
The finding is from an analysis of data from the GISSI-Prevenzione trial. That study found that 1 g daily of ...