Targeted failure of the week. Post No 68. Fish oil.

Fish oil is worthless agains cardiovascular risk factors. Is anybody surprised?

Italian researchers reported that a once-daily 1 g dose of N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids missed the primary endpoint in a Phase III trial in 12,513 patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors or atherosclerotic vascular disease who had not had a myocardial infarction (MI). The primary endpoint of the double-blind trial was the composite incidence of death from cardiovascular causes or hospital admission for cardiovascular causes at a median follow-up of five years (11.7% for fish oil vs. 11.9% for placebo, p=0.58).

I think that dietary supplements have the same efficacy as fish oil. They work well only in advertisement!