Richard Lord (fishinfo@guernsey.net)
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:08:23 -0000
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How do dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids protect us so effectively against cardiovascular disease?
(Science, Food)
Organisation: PJ Barnes & Associates
One meal of fatty fish per week may be enough to protect against death from a heart attack and as little as half a gram per day of the n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may be sufficient to protect against sudden death from a heart attack. But how do n-3 fatty acids work? Writing in the latest issue of Lipid Technology journal (January 2000, pages 12-14), Dr John Stanley (independent consultant and lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford, UK) says the low intakes of marine n-3 PUFA needed suggests that these effects on cardiovascular disease are unlikely to be mediated by changes in plasma lipid levels, blood pressure or thrombotic mechanisms. Instead, marine n-3 PUFA may prevent arrhythmia and reduce the likelihood of ventricular fibrillation, the main cause of death from a heart attack.
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