A simple daily fish oil supplement could prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes among the more than 516,000 people undergoing dialysis in the United States, according to new research showing the treatment cut cardiovascular events nearly in half.
The PISCES trial, published on Nov. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine, was conducted at 26 sites in Canada and Australia and involved 1,228 adults receiving routine dialysis—a treatment for severe kidney failure—for approximately 3 1/2 years.
