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Omega-3 with a Statin: The One-Two Punch to Knock Out Coronary Disease Omega-3 in the form of purified fish oil capsules, when combined with a statin, is a safe and effective way to further improve your cholesterol profile and also reduce the risk of heart attack and cardiac death beyond the benefits provided by statin therapy alone. This was the conclusion of the landmark JELIS study published in Lancet (March, 2007) of 18,600 patients with high cholesterol who were treated either with a statin, (like Lipitor, simvastatin, or Crestor), versus a statin with 1.8 grams of highly purified fish oil. The combo statin-fish oil therapy reduced risk of serious cardiovascular events, including heart attack, stroke, and cardiac death, by an additional 19 percent over the statin alone. Since we know from other studies that statins reduce cardiac events by about 30 percent, adding higher dose purified fish oil to a statin should reduce the cardiac risk by almost 50 percent. This is a very safe and well tolerated combination that powerfully lowers the bad lipids (LDL and triglycerides) and raises the good cholesterol (HDL). CardioTabs Omega-3 is a very highly purified fish oil so it comes in smaller capsules that are enteric coated. This means they are both easy to swallow and unlikely to cause the fishy aftertaste common with other fish oils. And because they are so highly purified, you don't have to worry about any dangerous contaminants like mercury or pesticides that are found in some omega-3 sources. To receive the high doses of omega-3 used in the JELIS trial, you would need to take about two or three capsules twice daily (about four to six capsules a day). |
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