For heart disease patients, omega-3 fatty acids may protect against morbidity and mortality by slowing biological aging, researchers say.

Patients who had the highest omega-3 fatty acid blood levels also had telomeres that shortened at a significantly slower rate than patients with lower intake, Ramin Farzaneh-Far, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues reported in the Jan. 20 JAMA.

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