Health value of Omega-3 supplements is increasingly questioned

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More Evidence That Omega-3 Supplements Don’t Work (Forbes): Once again researchers have failed to find any clinical benefit for omega-3 supplements.

In a new meta-analysis and sys­tem­atic review pub­lished in JAMA, Evan­ge­los Rizos and col­leagues ana­lyzed 20 ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­als includ­ing 68,680 patients and found no sig­nif­i­cant effect on any of the endpoints…Although early stud­ies sug­gested a ben­e­fit for omega-3 sup­ple­ments, the accu­mu­la­tion of evi­dence has resulted in a con­sis­tent fail­ure to con­firm this ben­e­fit, accord­ing to the authors. Cur­rent evi­dence, they con­cluded, does “not jus­tify the use of omega-3 as a struc­tured inter­ven­tion in every­day clin­i­cal prac­tice or guide­lines sup­port­ing dietary omega-3 PUFA administration.”

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