https://time.com/6980756/omega-3-fish-oil-heart-health/
Most people are familiar with the best things to
eat for a healthy heart: vegetables, low-fat
dairy, and lean proteins like fish. Some fish
like salmon also have the added benefit of being
full of omega-3 fatty acids, which are healthy
fats that can help to raise good cholesterol and
lower triglycerides.
Or so we thought. Studies on the benefits of fish
oil, and fish oil supplements, haven’t been as
conclusive when it comes to actually preventing
heart disease for people who aren’t at higher
risk. In the latest, published in BMJ,
researchers report that people with no history of
heart problems who regularly took fish oil
supplements actually increased their risk of
atrial fibrillation.
...
For people who already had a history of heart
disease, however, the results were quite
different. For them, as previous studies have
shown, regular fish oil supplementation was
linked to a 15% lower risk of progressing to
more severe heart problems—from having atrial
fibrillation to having a heart attack, for
example, or from worsening from heart failure
to dying.
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