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Fish Oil: Once Again the Headlines Aren’t Telling the Whole Story

It’s all over the news today. “Fish oil supplements don’t prevent heart attacks, study says.” “Omega-3 Fish Oil Supplements May Not Help the Heart After All.” As a cardiologist, these types of headlines alarm me, because if people stop taking their fish oil we’re going to see a huge…

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Inflammation Can Kill--But How Do You Measure It?

As you may remember, last week I wrote a blog called 5 Things Your Cardiologist Won’t Tell You. In that blog, I invited readers to ask any cardiology questions they had—and I’ll be answering all of them in future blog posts. Today, I wanted to answer a question asked by Melanie. She wrote,…

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Fish Oil: The Cardiovascular Superstar

Beginning in the 1970s, Danish researchers discovered that Greenland Eskimos had a low incidence of heart attacks compared to Westerners. The Danes linked the hardiness of Eskimo hearts to a diet abundant in fish oil, which they felt had potential anti-atherosclerotic benefits. This original study…

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