Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Atrial Fibrillation

Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Atrial Fibrillation.
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements don't piece back on recurrences of atrial fibrillation, a pattern of weird heartbeat that can cause stroke, green research suggests. "We now have definitive data that they don't vocation for most patients with AF atrial fibrillation ," said Dr Peter R Kowey, model designer of a study appearing in the Dec 1, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that is also scheduled to be presented Monday at the American Heart Association's annual congress in Chicago. "Although we can't eject the feasibility of efficacy in sicker AF patients, it would be racking to believe that it would work in that population and not in healthier patients first time hgh only cycle. So for hands-on purposes, yes, this is the end of the line in AF".

This study, the largest of its kind, looked at patients with AF who were otherwise healthy. "We cannot break there is any convincing manifestation of a role for omega-3 in the prevention of atrial fibrillation," added Dr Ranjit Suri, president of the Electrophysiology Service and Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not intricate with the trial hghster. The analyse was funded by GlaxoSmithKline.

Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fatty fish such as salmon and albacore tuna, had showed some seem in preventing consideration virus in earlier trials. Of the total 663 outpatient participants, 542 had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, which appears quickly and resolves on its own, and 121 had tenacious atrial fibrillation, which needs treatment.