Omega-6 fatty acids and cardiovascular disease: friend, not foe?

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc, Richmond, VA (W.S.H.); OmegaQuant Analytics, LLC, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); and Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (G.C.S.). bill@omegaquant.com.
² From the Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc, Richmond, VA (W.S.H.); OmegaQuant Analytics, LLC, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); and Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (G.C.S.).

Editorial

William S Harris et al. Circulation. 2014.

. 2014 Oct 28;130(18):1562-4.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.012534. Epub 2014 Aug 26.

¹ From the Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc, Richmond, VA (W.S.H.); OmegaQuant Analytics, LLC, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); and Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (G.C.S.). bill@omegaquant.com.
² From the Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc, Richmond, VA (W.S.H.); OmegaQuant Analytics, LLC, Sioux Falls, SD (W.S.H.); and Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (G.C.S.).

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Keywords: Editorials; cardiovascular diseases; epidemiology; fatty acids; prostaglandins.

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Dietary linoleic acid and risk of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.
Farvid MS, Ding M, Pan A, Sun Q, Chiuve SE, Steffen LM, Willett WC, Hu FB. Farvid MS, et al. Circulation. 2014 Oct 28;130(18):1568-78. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.010236. Epub 2014 Aug 26. Circulation. 2014. PMID: 25161045 Free PMC article.