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Fish Oil Plus
Statins Improve Cholesterol
(New York, Reuters Health, 9/2/02)
Dr. Gerald A. Watts of the University of Western Australia
and his team studied 48 obese, insulin- resistant men who had
high levels of LDL ("bad") cholesterol and low levels of HDL
(good) cholesterol. They divided the men into 4 groups: the
first group took atorvastatin and fish oil tablets daily;
while the second took atorvastatin and a placebo; the third
took fish oils and a placebo; and the fourth group took 2
placebos. The researchers found that after 6 weeks, the
cholesterol profiles of the subjects taking the statin drug
and/or fish oils had improved. They concluded that a
combination therapy using both statin and fish oil was
especially effective because it approached the problem in 2
different ways.
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