{"id":99748,"date":"2019-12-14T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T18:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/fda-approves-first-fish-oil-drug-for-cutting-cardiac-risks"},"modified":"2019-12-14T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T18:43:48","slug":"fda-approves-first-fish-oil-drug-for-cutting-cardiac-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/fda-approves-first-fish-oil-drug-for-cutting-cardiac-risks","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves first fish-oil drug for cutting cardiac risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-first-fish-oil-drug-for-cutting-cardiac-risks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. regulators on Friday approved expanded use of a fish oil-based drug for preventing serious heart complications in high-risk patients already taking cholesterol-lowering pills.<\/p>\n<p>Vascepa was approved years ago for people with sky-high triglycerides, a type of fat in blood. The Food and Drug Administration allowed its use in a far bigger group of adults with high, but less extreme, triglyceride levels who have multiple risk factors such as heart disease and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/heart-health\/drug-fish-oil-cuts-risk-heart-attack-stroke-study-finds-n934701\" target=\"_blank\">patient testing<\/a>, it reduced risks of potentially deadly complications including heart attacks and strokes about 25 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. regulators on Friday approved expanded use of a fish oil-based drug for preventing serious heart complications in high-risk patients already taking cholesterol-lowering pills. Vascepa was approved years ago for people with sky-high triglycerides, a type of fat in blood. The Food and Drug Administration allowed its use in a far bigger group of adults [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}