Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Atrial Fibrillation.
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements don't adulterate back on recurrences of atrial fibrillation, a kidney of aberrant heartbeat that can cause stroke, callow research suggests. "We now have definitive data that they don't livelihood for most patients with AF atrial fibrillation ," said Dr Peter R Kowey, command 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 get-together in Chicago. "Although we can't count out the admissibility of efficacy in sicker AF patients, it would be devoted to believe that it would work in that population and not in healthier patients best pro med. So for personal 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 asseverate there is any convincing evince of a role for omega-3 in the prevention of atrial fibrillation," added Dr Ranjit Suri, big cheese of the Electrophysiology Service and Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not labyrinthine with the trial. The survey was funded by GlaxoSmithKline.
Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fatty fish such as salmon and albacore tuna, had showed some engage in preventing feeling bug in earlier trials. Of the total 663 outpatient participants, 542 had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, which appears all at once and resolves on its own, and 121 had indefatigable atrial fibrillation, which needs treatment.
