SNP project finds seafood rich diet reduced heart attack risk among 90% of women participants
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] November 19, 2014
The Seafood Nutrition Partnership's Eating Heart Healthy pilot program has found that 92% of participants who were fed a seafood rich diet saw a reduction in their risk of sudden cardiac death.
At the launch of the Boston-based pilot program in June 2014, participants were medically tested for baseline levels of Omega-3, found primarily in fish and seafood. Participants were re-tested for Omega-3 levels in October 2014, following three months of implementing a heart-healthy diet rich in seafood, which revealed that more than 9 in 10 women participating in the program had improved their Omega-3 Index, and nearly 6 in 10 had moved into a lower cardiac risk quadrant, based on a scale developed by OmegaQuant and outlined in a study by CM Albert, et al, published in 2002 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...
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