Circulation: fish oil may help treat heart failure

Recently, in a research report published in the international journal Circulation, scientists from Brigham and women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and other institutions found that fish oil may help effectively treat heart failure through research; related research results came from a clinical trial conducted by researchers, who analyzed the impact of fish oil and vitamin D on the risk of heart disease and cancer in people Influence effect Image source: mediaexpress.com Major trials (vital, vitamin D and omega-3 Trial) has achieved some encouraging results Giving the elderly Mermaid oil supplement can reduce their risk of heart attack in the next few years, especially for the people who never take the fish oil In this study, the researchers analyzed the impact of the fish oil supplement on the risk of hospitalization for heart failure, which is a chronic disease, i.e no heart disease The method effectively pumps blood to the body, usually from the heart attack caused by myocardial damage, so researchers want to know whether the benefits observed in clinical trials can be extended to patients with heart failure The researchers found that both vitamin D and fish oil can reduce the risk of patients being hospitalized for the first time due to heart failure within 5 years, and people who ingest fish oil are unlikely to need to be hospitalized again; the results of this study show that fish oil supplements can effectively prevent the risk of hospitalization due to heart failure, and fish oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which can help reduce the body's risk Triglyceride levels, reduce inflammation and blood clotting, and help stabilize the body's heart rate The American Heart Association recommends that people should take two times of fish per week, preferably fish with Omega -3 fatty acids, such as salmon, mackerel, sardine and finned tuna In this study, the researchers studied about 26000 participants aged 50 and over At the beginning of the study, the participants had no heart problems The researchers randomly divided them into 1g prescription fish oil group, 2000iu vitamin D group or placebo group The risk of heart attack of the participants in the fish oil group was reduced by 28% compared with that of the placebo group over the past five years, This effect was particularly evident in people with low fish Content in their diets, and the risk of heart disease was reduced by 40% in the fish oil group When the researchers analyzed hospitalized people with heart failure, they found that fish oil or vitamin D intake did not seem to have a significant effect on their first admission to hospital, but patients who took fish oil were 14% less likely to be hospitalized again Can fish oil really prevent the risk of first admission? At present, researchers are not sure Finally, researcher djousse said that heart failure is a complex situation, which has different forms and causes Therefore, if heart failure patients are curious about fish oil, it is better to communicate with doctors to determine whether fish oil intake is suitable for them Original source: Luc Djoussé,Nancy R Cook,Eunjung Kim, et al Supplementation with Vitamin D and/or Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Incidence of Heart Failure Hospitalization: VITAL-Heart Failure, Circulation,11 Nov 2019 doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.044645