Omega-3 fatty acids and coronary artery disease: More than a fish tale: Postgraduate Medicine: Vol 85, No 8

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Is fish oil the miracle discovery for reducing the incidence of coronary artery disease, or are investigators barking up the proverbial wrong tree? If fish oil indeed is antiatherogenic, what properties make it so? How much fish oil is needed for the desired effect? Does ingestion of fish oil have deleterious effects on health? Dr Leaf reviews the fish oil story and examines current theories that seem most plausible.

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