Eat your vegetables (and fish): Another reason why they may promote heart health
Elevated levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) — a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet — may reduce hypertension-related heart disease symptoms. New research in rats finds that low-dose treatment with TMAO reduced heart thickening (cardiac fibrosis) and markers of heart failure in an animal model of hypertension.
November 6, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: animal-model, cardiac-fibrosis, compound-linked, consumption, diet, heart-disease, heart-failure, may-reduce, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, primarily-vegetarian, reduced-heart, tmao
