Dr. Sandra Fryhofer - Your Health Matters - Check Your Oil - Heart Disease and Fish Oil

Heart disease kills over half a million Americans every year. To prevent a first heart attack, a lot of people take fish oil. But does it actually help? Not according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The 5-year study included more than 12,000 healthy patients with heart disease risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, a tobacco habit, obesity, or a history of narrowed heart arteries.

Your Health Matters with Dr. Sandra Fryhofer is a weekly series offering useful and timely information on health and well-being.

Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, MACP, FRCP is a board certified doctor of internal medicine in Atlanta and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is on staff at Piedmont Hospital.