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Omega-3 Index and Cardiovascular Health
Recent large trials with eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the cardiovascular field did not demonstrate a beneficial effect in terms of reductions of clinical endpoints like total mortality, sudden cardiac arrest or other major adverse cardiac events. Pertinent guidelines do not uniformly recommend EPA + DHA for cardiac patients. In contrast, in epidemiologic finding...
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Azin Mohebi-Nejad , Behnood Bikdeli 2 1 Cardiovascular Department, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2 Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), and Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA Correspondence to...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nutrients
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2072-6643
DOI: 10.3390/nu6020799