Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Atrial Fibrillation

Omega-3 Does Not Prevent Atrial Fibrillation.
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements don't snip back on recurrences of atrial fibrillation, a ilk of irregular heartbeat that can cause stroke, imaginative research suggests. "We now have definitive data that they don't work for most patients with AF atrial fibrillation ," said Dr Peter R Kowey, part founder of a study appearing in the Dec 1, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that is also scheduled to be presented Monday at the American Heart Association's annual encounter in Chicago. "Although we can't except the possibility of efficacy in sicker AF patients, it would be hard to believe that it would a post in that population and not in healthier patients mom ko manforce goli de kar maa bani -. So for practical purposes, yes, this is the end of the line in AF".

This study, the largest of its kind, looked at patients with AF who were otherwise healthy. "We cannot hold there is any convincing sign of a role for omega-3 in the prevention of atrial fibrillation," added Dr Ranjit Suri, chief honcho of the Electrophysiology Service and Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not tangled with the trial girl. The study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline.

Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fatty fish such as salmon and albacore tuna, had showed some give indication of in preventing heart disease in earlier trials. Of the sum 663 outpatient participants, 542 had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, which appears on the spur of the moment and resolves on its own, and 121 had persistent atrial fibrillation, which needs treatment.