Fish oil beats statins for lowering mortality risk

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Hi David,

 

Thanks for the information.

Walnuts and flax seeds and flax oil are high in Omega 3 as well.

 

David Bozzi wrote:

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> Hi Gang, thought some of you might find this interesting...

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> Fish oil beats statins for lowering mortality risk

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> The April 11 2005 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine published a

> review of the effects of various lipid lowering regimens on overall

> mortality and mortality from coronary heart disease. Researchers from

> Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and University Hospital in

> Basel, Switzerland reviewed 97 clinical trials published between 1965

> and 2003 that included 137,140 men and women being treated and 138,976

> control subjects. The current analysis compared the association with

> mortality risk of diet, lipid lowering drugs categorized as statins,

> fibrates and resins, and the nutritional supplements omega-3 fatty

> acids (commonly found in fish oils) and niacin.

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> While the fibrate class of drugs failed to influence overall mortality

> and mildly elevated noncardiac mortality, and while diet, resins and

> niacin appeared to provide insignificant benefits, statins and omega-3

> fatty acids signifcantly lowered both overall and coronary heart

> disease mortality risk during the trial periods. The risk of overall

> mortality was reduced by 13 percent by statins and 23 percent by

> omega-3 fatty acids compared to the risk experienced by those who did

> not receive treatment. When the risk of mortality from heart disease

> alone was analyzed, the use of statin drugs and omega-3 fatty acids

> were found to lower the risk by 22 and 32 percent, respectively.

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> The superiority of omega-3 acids in lowering the risk of overall and

> cardiac mortality cannot be explained by an ability to reduce

> cholesterol, which averaged 2 percent in this meta-analysis compared

> to an average reduction of 20 percent acheived via the use of statins.

> The protection provided by omega-3 fatty acids against heart

> arrhythmias, along with their antithrombotic and anti-inflammatory

> properties may be responsible for the mortality risk reduction

> suggested by this review.

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> http://www.lef.org/whatshot/#fobs

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