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Fish oil may reduce sudden cardiac death risk

Among 12 patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death, six weeks of 3 grams of fish oil a day left 42 percent with no inducible ventricular tachycardia, against 7 percent of 15 controls - a result the researchers read as an anti-arrhythmic effect.

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20% patients not qualified for Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Of more than 100,000 ICD recipients in a national registry, 22.5% got the device for a non-evidence-based indication, a JAMA study found. Those patients died in hospital three times as often as the rest, 0.57% versus 0.18%, and had a higher complication rate after the procedure.

Jan 5, 2011

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