Thursday, February 5, 2009

Fish Oils Beat Statins for Heart Failure

Adding 1 gram of high quality fish oils per day to will help prevent deaths and hospitalizations in patients with congestive heart failure, according to the Prescriber’s Letter. Statin drugs did not prevent complications from heart failure. Fish oils work by preventing arrhythmias, reducing inflammation and lowering triglycerides.

See Prescriber’s Letter (subscription required) 11/08 issue, p. 62.

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