Help Patients Avoid Problems if Fish Oil Supplements Are Used

May 2017

You might see fewer patients taking fish oil supplements.

New guidance suggests that fish oil supplements MIGHT help prevent future heart events in patients who have already had a heart attack or have heart failure...but any benefit appears small.

Plus evidence suggests that fish oil supplements do NOT prevent cardiovascular events in patients withOUT heart disease.

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Help Patients Avoid Problems if Fish Oil Supplements Are Used

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