Aspirin and Omega-3s: Alone is good, but

Eating a tuna sandwich may increase your risk of heart disease even in people who take aspirin, but it's not so much like eating three tuna sandwiches and not taking them.

According to the latest findings published at the American Heart Association's annual meeting (AHA), blood levels of Omega-3s may alter the beneficial effects of aspirin on the heart. The author of the study is Dr. Robert Block - a cardiologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center

Although research has not yet been published in a scientific journal, the study authors emphasize that this finding needs to be widely spread to encourage people to change their habits of using aspirin more appropriately. Omage-3s can be found in fish oil or tuna.

Doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin every day for people at risk of heart attack. This prescription has a role in anticoagulation, making blood easily circulate in the vein and preventing the creation of blood clots in dangerous positions. Omega-3s are also thought to have similar effects, although not significantly.

Using aspirin and fish oil together is a bad thing.(Photo: Shutterstock).

According to Dr. Block, he has done many experiments on the simultaneous use of these two substances and how they react. In addition, overuse of aspirin or the use of aspirin in people who are not at risk of heart attack also reverses the function of aspirin, when blood becomes more diluted and increases the risk of external bleeding.

Block and his team conducted a small-scale study of 30 volunteers, examining how blood flow in the body was when aspirin and fish oil were used together. The team observed that if moderate Omega-3s were loaded, this combination would affect platelets - cells play an important role in blood clotting.

In the latest study, Block's team conducted experiments on a larger scale based on data recorded in 1948, called Tim Framingham Research. Here, they found an association between aspirin users every day and those with heart attacks, strokes or other cardiovascular diseases during the next 30 years.

After screening the data, the team found that people who took aspirin every day and often consumed a small amount of Omega-3s had twice the risk of heart disease than those who used one of the two substances. Although only a small amount of Omega-3s is loaded into the body, it is equal to the amount of essential fatty acids needed for the body, ranging from 4.2% to 4.9%. This number corresponds to a tuna sandwich every week.

The scientists also found that people who did not take aspirin and consumed low amounts of Omega-3s had a 55% lower risk of heart disease than those who did not use both aspirin and Omega-3s. The relationship between high-dose aspirin and high-dose Omega-3s has not been clearly defined.

In short, taking aspirin with a small amount of Omega-3s increases your risk of heart disease. A small amount of Omega-3s loaded without aspirin will significantly lower this risk. However, Block still hasn't figured out why this is causing it, probably because both aspirin and Omega-3s are absorbed into the body in the same part.

Therefore, using more or less or not using aspirin depends on how each person eats seafood and how to take Omega-3s into the body.'This study has only come to the first steps, so we do not recommend giving up aspirin and switching to Omega-3s, but it is clear that combining them may not help your health. You, ' Block shared.