Research Abstract
Human Study
Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation reduces total mortality and sudden death in patients who have already had a heart attack.
Early protection against sudden death by n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids after myocardial infarction: time-course analysis of the results of the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell'Infarto Miocardico (GISSI)-Prevenzione.
R Marchioli,
F Barzi,
Elena Bomba,
Carmine Chieffo,
Domenico Di Gregorio,
Rocco Di Mascio,
Maria Grazia Franzosi,
Enrico Geraci,
Giacomo Levantesi,
Aldo Pietro Maggioni,
Loredana Mantini,
R M Marfisi,
G Mastrogiuseppe,
Nicola Mininni,
Gian Luigi Nicolosi,
Massimo Santini,
Carlo Schweiger,
L Tavazzi,
Gianni Tognoni,
Corrado Tucci,
F Valagussa
Circulation
Apr 23, 2002
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BACKGROUND: Our purpose was to assess the time course of the benefit of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) on mortality documented by the GISSI-Prevenzione trial in patients surviving a recent (
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- 11997274
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