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Health Wrap - Week of June 12th

It’s been commonly believed that fish oil supplements can help prevent abnormal heart rhythms.

But new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator did not have a significantly lower risk of serious abnormal heart rhythms or death by consuming fish oil supplements.

Sudden cardiac death is responsible for approximately 50 percent of all death from cardiovascular disease in the western world.

Researchers tested the effect of omega-3 fatty acids from fish on the incidence of recurrent ventricular arrhythmia and death in a large, trial of patients with implantable defibrillators.

Patients were randomly assigned to receive 2 grams/day of fish oil in capsules or placebo capsules for around a year on average.

There was no difference between the two groups.

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This week Merck presented data on its experimental diabetes drug called januvia, the first in a new class of oral medicines for type two diabetes.

In fact, if approved, it would be the first type two diabetes drug approved since 1999.

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Januvia is the first of a new class of drugs called dpp-4 inhibitors, which work by enhancing the incretin system, a natural body system that lowers blood sugar.

When blood sugar is elevated, incretins work to regulate high blood sugar levels by triggering the pancreas to increase insulin production and signaling the liver to stop producing glucose.

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And should human infant formulas contain iron?

A new study in neurobiology of aging suggests that perhaps, iron supplementation of formulas needs to be reconsidered.

With formula, twelve times the amount of iron is absorbed compared to what’s absorbed form human breast milk.

When researchers fed mice the equivalent of iron supplementation in human formula, they developed a degenerative neurologic disorder similar to Parkinson’s as they aged.

The mice showed an actual loss of dopamine-producing neurons. All of the mice, bred from the same genetic strain, showed signs of damage.

Early life exposure to iron does seem to set up a sequence of processes that leads to cell damage in the area of the brain that controls smooth movements, and what is affected with Parkinson’s.

Experts say this research could have important public health consequences regarding iron supplementation in kids.

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