Re: Eating Fish Protects Against Stroke

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Hi All,

This paper and the Circulation paper Rodney post on

are pdf-available and the stroke paper abstract is blow.

Cheers, Al Pater.

Stroke. 2004 Jul;35(7):1538-42. Epub 2004 May 20.

Fish consumption and incidence of stroke: a meta-analysis of cohort

studies.

He K, Song Y, Daviglus ML, Liu K, Van Horn L, Dyer AR, Goldbourt U,

Greenland P.

..... We searched the Medline and Embase databases (1966 through

October 2003) and identified 9 independent cohorts (from 8 studies)

that

provided a relative risk (RR) and corresponding 95% CI for total or

any type of

stroke in relation to fish consumption. Pooled RR and 95% CI of

stroke were

estimated by variance-based meta-analysis. RESULTS: Compared with

those who

never consumed fish or ate fish less than once per month, the pooled

RRs for

total stroke were 0.91 (95% CI, 0.79 to 1.06) for individuals with

fish intake 1

to 3 times per month, 0.87 (95% CI, 0.77 to 0.98) for once per week,

0.82 (95%

CI, 0.72 to 0.94) for 2 to 4 times per week, and 0.69 (95% CI, 0.54

to 0.88) for

> or =5 times per week (P for trend=0.06). In stratified analyses of

3 large

cohort studies with data on stroke subtypes, the pooled RRs across 5

categories

of fish intake were 1.0, 0.69 (95% CI, 0.48 to 0.99), 0.68 (95% CI,

0.52 to

0.88), 0.66 (95% CI, 0.51 to 0.87), and 0.65 (95% CI, 0.46 to 0.93)

for ischemic

stroke (P for trend=0.24); and 1.0, 1.47 (95% CI, 0.81 to 2.69), 1.21

(95% CI,

0.78 to 1.85), 0.89 (95% CI, 0.56 to 1.40), and 0.80 (95% CI, 0.44 to

1.47) for

hemorrhagic stroke (P for trend=0.31). CONCLUSIONS: These results

suggest that

intake of fish is inversely related to risk of stroke, particularly

ischemic

stroke. Fish consumption as seldom as 1 to 3 times per month may

protect against

the incidence of ischemic stroke.

PMID: 15155968 [PubMed - in process]

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