
A new fish oil works but shoots itself in the foot
The REDUCE-IT trial concluded this week and returned results in favor of fish oil. It was a randomized placebo controlled trial following 8,000 patients for five years with high cardiac risk and high triglycerides. Those taking fish oil had a whopping 25% reduction in cardiovascular events. It was sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Amarin to test their proprietary fish oil Vascepa. These results are impressive - are they likely to be true? First, await peer review and pu