Fish oil seems effective against heart failure

Patients with chronic heart failure are probably helped just as well by cheap fish oil supplements as by expensive cholesterol level lowering medicines. This is the result of an Italian study.

The scientists followed 7000 heart patients for a period of 4 years. Half of them received pills with omega 3 fats gotten from fish. The other half received a placebo. From the first group 1981 people died as a result of their disease. In the placebo group 2289 people died from their disease.

As the same a study into cholesterol medicine was being conducted. This study showed that the same amount of people died in the group the took the cholesterol medicine as in the group that was taking a placebo!

The Italian doctors think that the consumption of fatty fish or taking fish oil supplement can help heart patients just as well or even better than cholesterol medicine. The research was published in the medical publication the Lancet.

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