Research Categories for Cardiovascular and Circulatory Systems

Brain and Nervous System

Atherosclerosis
- - Marine-derived n-3 fatty acids and atherosclerosis in Japanese, Japanese-American, and white men.
  - Intakes of long-chain omega-3 fatty acid associated with reduced risk for death from coronary heart disease in healthy adults
  - Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 concentrations in plasma are associated with the extent of coronary artery disease and correlate to adipose tissue levels of marine n-3 fatty acids
  - Dietary intervention with oil rich fish reduces platelet-monocyte aggregation in man.
  - Intake of Fish and n3 Fatty Acids and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Japanese: The Japan Public Health Center-Based (JPHC) Study Cohort I.
  - Effect of different antilipidemic agents and diets on mortality
  - Association of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids with stability of atherosclerotic plaques: a randomised controlled trial.
  - n-3 Fatty acids and the prevention of coronary atherosclerosis
  - The effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acids on coronary atherosclerosis.

Protection and Anti-inflammatory

Triglycerides
- - Oily fish reduces plasma triacylglycerols: a primary prevention study in overweight men and women
  - Effects of four doses of n-3 fatty acids given to hyperlipidemic patients for six months

Cholesterol
- - Effect of garlic and fish-oil supplementation on serum lipid and lipoprotein concentrations in hypercholesterolemic men.

Angina
- - Effects of low-dose fish oil concentrate on angina, exercise tolerance time, serum triglycerides, and platelet function

Heart Attack
- - n-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids, fatal ischemic heart disease, and nonfatal myocardial infarction in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study
  - Association between n-3 fatty acid consumption and ventricular ectopy after myocardial infarction.
  - Blood concentrations of individual long-chain n–3 fatty acids and risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction1
  - Effects of fish-oil supplementation on myocardial fatty acids in humans.
  - The Fish in Secondary Prevention of Heart Disease (FISH) Survey—Primary Care Physicians and Omega-3 Fatty Acid Prescribing Practice.
  - N-3 fatty acids: priority for post-myocardial infarction clinical trials.
  - Efficacy of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids after myocardial infarction: results of GISSI-Prevenzione trial.
  - Early protection against sudden death by n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids after myocardial infarction: time-course analysis of the results of GISSI-Prevenzione.
  - Fish consumption and risk of sudden cardiac death.
  - Use of fish oils appears to reduce infarct size as estimated from peak creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase activities.
  - Fish consumption, n-3 fatty acids in cell membranes, and heart rate variability in survivors of myocardial infarction with left ventricular dysfunction.
  - Dietary intake and cell membrane levels of long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the risk of primary cardiac arrest.

Heart Rate and Arrhythmias
- - Antiarrhythmic effects of omega-3 fatty acids: from epidemiology to bedside.
  - Heart rate variability and fatty acid content of blood cell membranes: a dose-response study with n-3 fatty acids.

Stroke
- - Intake of fish and omega-3 fatty acids and risk of stroke in women

Blood Pressure and Hypertension

Heart Transplantation
- - Hypertension prophylaxis with omega-3 fatty acids in heart transplant recipients

Heart Diseases
- Cardiovascular Disease
  - - Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 concentrations in plasma are associated with the extent of coronary artery disease and correlate to adipose tissue levels of marine n-3 fatty acids.
    - Fish consumption, fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids, and cardiovascular disease
    - New evidence in support of the cardiovascular benefit of long-chain n-3 fatty acids
    - Fish-oil concentrate: effects of variables related to cardiovascular disease
- Coronary Heart Disease
  - - n-3 Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids reduce risk of coronary heart disease death: extending the evidence to the elderly1
    - C-reactive protein, dietary n-3 fatty acids, and the extent of coronary artery disease
    - n-3 fatty acids in adipose tissue and coronary artery disease are inversely related
    - Blood omega-3 and trans fatty acids in middle-aged acute coronary syndrome patients.
    - Fish and long-chain omega-3 fatty acid intake and risk of coronary heart disease and total mortality in diabetic women.
    - Fish and omega-3 fatty acid intake and risk of coronary heart disease in women.
    - Fish oil-derived fatty acids, docosahexaenoic acid and docosapentaenoic acid, and the risk of acute coronary events.
    - Serum fatty acids and the risk of coronary heart disease.