Omega-3 fatty acids: How can they be used in secondary prevention?

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 510-517

  Tziomalos, Konstantinos ^a   Athyros, Vasilios G ^a   Karagiannis, Asterios ^a   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LINOLENIC ACID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PLACEBO; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; PRAVASTATIN; SIMVASTATIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VEGETABLE OIL; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVERSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY FIBER; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REINFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOW FAT DIET; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CORONARY DISEASE; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; SECONDARY PREVENTION; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 58149331850     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-008-0079-y     Document Type: Review

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