Omega-3 fish oil: Highly Recommend by Heart experts

September 17, 2008

Patients with heart diseases always face the threat of sudden death or a potentially life-threatening irregularity of the heartbeat called arrhythmia.

There is now a growing body of evidence that supplementation with omega-3 fish oil can reduce the risk of sudden death in many high-risk heart patients.

The following are all oily fish:

• Herrings
• Mackerel
• Pilchards
• Salmon
• Sardines
• Trout

These fish contains high amounts of the beneficial omega-3 oil.

A study published in the journal Circulation by Dr. Alexander Leaf and his colleagues at the Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts showed that the regular ingestion of fish oil fatty acids for 12 months may have benefited the patients due to a longer time to first potentially fatal arrhythmic event or death from any cause among patients randomized to fish oil compared with those randomized to olive-oil placebo.

It would suggest that omega-3 can help suppress the potentially fatal arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation or VF.

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