Relation between omega-3, risk of premature death revealed

American scientists have identified a relationship between the omega-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) index and the risk of premature death, according to the Nature Communications journal, Report informs.

Experts conducted a meta-analysis, which included data on 42,000 residents of various states. According to the data obtained, patients with a higher index of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (included in PUFAs) had, on average, a 13 percent lower risk of premature death, in contrast to those with a lower level of these trace elements in the blood.

“In other words, those people who died with relatively low omega-3 levels died prematurely, i.e. all else being equal, they might have lived longer had their levels been higher,” Asian News International has recently reported.

Patients with a lack of omega-3 more often, all other things being equal, died from cancer, as well as from cardiovascular diseases and a number of other reasons.