Will Taking Fish Oil Help Lower My Cholesterol?
2010-07-22
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Will Taking Fish Oil Help Lower My Cholesterol?
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Fish oil is most likely to help lower cholesterol in patients who have high triglyceride levels. However, it also may worsen LDL levels (“bad cholesterol”). If you would like to try fish oil before beginning a prescribed medication for cholesterol, it is safe to try along with cholesterol monitoring and may have some benefit. For those with high LDL levels, it may be best to take fish oil with a cholesterol-lowering medication like a statin to improve both LDL and triglyceride levels.
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Schivone, Gillian. (2010). Will Taking Fish Oil Help Lower My Cholesterol?. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/92271.
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