Deans' stroke musings: Fish oils to prevent CHD . . . it's now official: A definite "no go"

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Fish oils to prevent CHD . . . it's now official: A definite "no go"

I'm continuing to take them for these reasons. 1. here, 2. here
http://www.theheart.org/columns/topolog/fish-oils-to-prevent-chd----it-s-now-official-a-definite-no-go.do?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+BlogsTheheartorg+%2528Blogs+%2540+theheart.orgENGLiSH%2529&utm_content=Yahoo%2521+Mail
Now what does this say about fish oil?
I don't know about you, but I have an awful lot of patients that come to me on fish oil and I try to implore them to stop taking it. This trial arms us [with proof against fish oils] for our patients who have not had an MI, who have not had heart failure, where the
worry is not suppression of ventricular arrhythmia (and even that is a little suspect). Fish oil does nothing, and we cannot continue to argue about either "the right dose" or "the right preparation. It's a "nada effect."
I think this is a really important trial in cardiovascular medicine. It's also interesting that 70% of the patients [in the trial] had hypercholesterolemia and only 40% were taking statins. This group [of patients] was even more "loaded," if you will, to derive some benefit.
Fish oil is a "no-go". If it doesn't work in this group, it's hard to imagine in lesser-risk groups that it's going to have any salutary impact.
I really appreciate you tuning in to theheart.org. I'll be interested in your thoughts on fish oils. It's been a fishy story for a long time.

More details at the link.
Sorry Dr. Topol but I will continue for the reasons I listed.