作者
Elemárcia Martins da Silva Paixão, Ana Carolina de M Oliveira, Nathalia Pizato, Maria Imaculada Muniz-Junqueira, Kelly G Magalhães, Eduardo Yoshio Nakano, Marina K Ito
发表日期
2017/12
期刊
Nutrition journal
卷号
16
页码范围
1-11
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
We evaluated the effects of eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acids enriched fish oil (FO) on nutritional and immunological parameters of treatment naïve breast cancer patients.
Methods
In a randomized double blind controlled trial, the FO group (FG) patients were supplemented with 2 g/ day of FO concentrate containing 1.8 g of n-3 fatty acids during 30 days. The placebo group (PG) received 2 g/ day of mineral oil. At baseline and after the intervention, plasma levels of n-3 fatty acids, dietary intake, weight, body composition, biochemical and immunological markers were assessed.
Results
At the end of the intervention period, no between group differences were observed regarding anthropometric parameters. There was a significant increase in the plasma phospholipid EPA (p = 0.004 …
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