The sold oils of fish in supplements would not protect against the arrhythmia, but they would reduce 21% the risk to die of a cardiovascular trouble.
It is the conclusion that a physician researcher of the university of the Alberta, Hernando, that analyzed a dozen of study on the topic, pulls. He/it presented his/its results at the time of the Canadian Convention on the cardiovascular health 2007, held to Quebec.
Although he/it considers that the supplements of omega 3 are without effect against the arrhythmia, Hernando affirms that fish himself permits to warn some cardiovascular unrests. ” The fatty acids omega 3 presents some kindness and it stays important to include fish in his/her/its food at least two or three times per week”, he/it affirms.
However, his/her/its data on the arrhythmia cause the controversy, all as the way whose results have been presented.
A ” April fool?”
” I find mindless to have indicated that the effect of the omega 3 on the arrhythmia constitutes an April fool »1, deplore the Dr Anil Nigam, of the institute of cardiology of Montreal.
On the one hand, this one indicates that the published up to here studies show – on the contrary – that the omega 3 has anti-arrhythmic properties. ” This only meta-analysis – that has not been published again in a scientific magazine. doesn’t have the same scientific weight that the whole scientific literature that has been published on the topic since 30 years”, sustains the cardiologist.
On the other hand, pharmacist Jean-Yves Dionne considers ” dishonest” to have put the accent on the inefficiency of the supplements of fish oils against the arrhythmia, rather than on the reduction of the death rate by cardiovascular illness.
” No medicine entails a reduction of 21% of the death rate, but one wanted to attract the attention on the negative aspect, as if one wanted to shake the kindness of the fish” oils, he/it is indignant.
To lean his/her/its statements concerning the inefficiency of the omega 3 against the arrhythmia, the Dr Léon sustains that ” the prevention of the arrhythmias is one of the main arguments of sale” of the supplements of fish oils.
” Nothing is falser, answers Jean-Yves Dionne. No supplement can lean on such an allegation because the Canadian regulation on the products of natural health the forbidden”. For the prevention
According to the pharmacist, ” it is not necessary to see the supplements of omega 3 of navy origin like a product miracle, but that stays a “incontestable prevention tool.
What the Dr Anil Nigal confirms. ” In addition to procure some kindness on the cardiovascular health, the omega 3 of food source or in supplement have an anti-inflammatory effect also against the rheumatoid arthritis and the ulcerous colitis. In addition, they reduce the athérosclérose as well as the sudden death by infarctus with shrewd ventricular arrhythmia. All that is documented” very, he/it explains.
The good dosage
Because of the heterogeneity of the supplements used in the studies that he/it analyzed, Hernando Léon could not specify the proportions of acids docosahexaénoïque (ADH) and eicosapentaénoïque (AEP) that a supplement must contain to procure a protective effect on the heart.
According to cardiologist Anil Nigam, a supplement of 1 g of fish oils, containing 600 mg of AEP and 300 mg of ADH, is the generally advisable posology. ” It is what we use to the institute of cardiology”, he/it concludes.
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