Secret to Heart Disease Prevention May be Found in Amazon Tribe according to : Newsweek

The indigenous people were discovered to have the lowest levels of artery hardening, a risk for heart disease, ever recorded, researchers said Friday. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for African-Americans, Hispanics and whites. They found only one in 10 Tsimane people were at risk of heart disease. Tribe members largely eat rice, corn, nuts, fruit, wild game and fish. Members of a tribe located in the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia might have the healthiest hearts in the world.




Pricey New Cholesterol addiction's Effect On Heart Disease Is More Modest Than HopedEnlarge this image Dan Woodruff/Illustration Works/Getty Images Dan Woodruff/Illustration Works/Getty ImagesAnother cardiology meeting, another big prevention trial – and questions abound. That reduction in risk is meaningful – but no new records on risk reduction were set. We do all hope that one day cardiovascular disease will be relegated to the history books. Some experts believed that doing so might virtually eliminate cardiovascular disease. The manufacturer-sponsored study, called FOURIER, enrolled about 27,000 people with cardiovascular disease and who were already well treated with statin therapy.

Omega-3 Fish Oil: Insufficient Evidence of Heart Disease Prevention

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (fish oil) supplementation and the prevention of clinical cardiovascular disease: a science advisory from the American Heart Association. However, these supplements may help prevent death and hospitalization in patients who have recently experienced a heart attack.The advisory is an update from AHA's 2002 recommendations that fish oil may be beneficial for patients with documented coronary heart disease. MARCH 20, 2017Jennifer Barrett, Assistant EditorThe American Heart Association (AHA) has published a new science advisory stating that there is not enough evidence to support the use of fish oil supplementation as a primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in the general population. The studies evaluated the clinical impact of omega-3 supplements on outcomes such as heart attacks, strokes, and atrial fibrillation.The researchers determined that, although there is no scientific evidence of the preventive benefits of fish oil supplements, prescribing supplementation as a treatment should still be considered in patients with prior heart attack or heart failure.ReferenceFish oil supplements may help prevent death after a heart attack but lack evidence of cardiovascular benefit for the general population of cardiovascular benefit for general population [news release]. 17, 2017.Siscovick DS, Barringer TA, Fretts AM, et al.


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