New numbers suggest that a purified fish oil derivative, a prescription drug called Vascepa, is more effective at preventing cardiovascular events than previously thought
The drug lowered the rate of these events in high-risk patients -- including strokes, heart attacks and deaths from cardiovascular causes -- by 30% overall versus placebo, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Additional questions remain about how the drug actually works. Experts say it's unclear whether the drug prevents cardiovascular events by acting directly on triglycerides or whether they are a marker for some other process going on in our bodies. Or perhaps some combination of the two.Roughly a quarter of Americans age 20 and older have elevated triglycerides, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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