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Fish oil increases omega‑3 index (erythrocyte membrane)

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01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“However, the omega-3 index increased more than two-fold in the fish oil group only (7.2 ± 1.2% increase from baseline, P < 0.001; between group differential P < 0.001).”
Quoted verbatim from Fish Oil Increases Specialized Pro-resolving Lipid Mediators in PAD (The OMEGA-PAD II Trial).
This finding among the 2 findings on its endpoint

fish oil

Omega-3 index (erythrocyte membrane)

raises

Who
Male veterans aged 50 years or older with peripheral artery disease and intermittent claudication (11 randomised to fish oil, 13 to soybean oil placebo), after 3 months
Dose studied
4.4 g/day, four capsules twice daily, for 3 months

Moderate evidencePMID 30771686 · 2019

02 · The study

Study
RCT
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderatethis finding
  • limited
  • very limited
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

The Journal of surgical research
What else it reported1 finding · 0 compounds · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6WRCZSSYJA6HMMGMBWZJGQ5