BOSTON—Eating salmon or other fatty fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids once a week reduced men’s risk of heart failure, according to researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).
Analysis showed that the men who ate fatty fish (herring, mackerel, salmon, whitefish and char) once a week were 12 percent less likely to develop heart failure, compared with men who ate no fatty fish.
“Previous research has demonstrated that fatty fish and omega-3 fatty acids help to combat risk factors for a range of heart-related conditions, such as lowering triglycerides [fats in the blood] reducing blood pressure, heart rate and heart rate variability,” said first author Emily Levitan, PhD, a research fellow in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Center at BIDMC. “Collectively, this may explain the association with the reduced risk of heart failure found in our study.”
