Fish diet, fish oil and docosahexaenoic acid rich oil lower fasting and postprandial plasma lipid levels.

Jyrki J. Ågren, Otto Hänninen, Antero Julkunen, L Fogelholm, Helvi M. Vidgren, Ursula Schwab, O Pynnönen, Matti Uusitupa

PubMed · 1996 · 121 citations · 0 references

Abstract

These results show that both fasting and postprandial triglyceride concentrations can be decreased with moderate intakes of long-chain n-3 fatty acids either from a fish diet or fish oil and that also pure DHA has a hypotriglyceridemic effect.