Articles tagged ‘diet’

The consumption of fish has no major role in the prevention of heart failure, according to results from a large prospective population study.(1) The study, which was started in 1990 and involved all men and women over the age of 55 living in a suburb of Rotterdam, found no difference in the risk of developing heart failure between those who did eat fish and those who didn’t.

Findings presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona show that adherence to a Mediterranean Diet and high intake of caffeine favour arrhythmias in people without known cardiac disease and also that patients with high intake of caffeine and coffee are more likely to develop atrial fibrillation