Background—Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice and is particularly common in the elderly. Although effects of fish intake, including potential antiarrhythmic effects, may favorably influence risk of AF, relationships between fish intake and AF incidence have not been evaluated. Methods and Results—In a prospective, population-based cohort of 4815 adults a...

BACKGROUND Associations between fish consumption and stroke risk have been inconsistent, possibly because of the differences in types of fish meals consumed. Additionally, such relationships have not been specifically evaluated in the elderly, in whom disease burden may be high and diet less influential. METHODS Among 4775 adults 65 years or older (range, 65-98 years) and free of known cerebr...

BACKGROUND Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are used as flame retardants in many household items. Given concerns over their potential adverse health effects, we identified predictors and evaluated temporal changes of PBDE serum concentrations. METHODS PBDE serum concentrations were measured in young children (2-8 years old; N = 67), parents of young children (<55 years old; N = 90), and...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice and is particularly common in the elderly. Although effects of fish intake, including potential antiarrhythmic effects, may favorably influence risk of AF, relationships between fish intake and AF incidence have not been evaluated. METHODS AND RESULTS In a prospective, population-based cohort of 4815 adults...

  Status of fish consumption was analyzed by completing the 295 questionnaires in all 22 metropolitan regions of Tehran from different households in 2008. After reviewing the descriptive and statistics analysis along with the non-parametric statistics, the fish consumption per capita was extracted through formulas. The average and mode of purchasing of each household occurs 11 times per year wi...

Levels of bacterial mutagenicity 3-17 times above spontaneous are generated during commercial thermal processing (canning) of foods, particularly foods high in protein. The potential for other processing operations, including pasteurization, dehydration, and concentration, to produce substances active in the Ames Salmonella assay was also examined. Two heated fish model systems, canned salmon a...

Most fishes are poikilothermic-Le. their body temperature is within a few degrees of ambient unless ambient is changing rapidly. The exceptions are certain sharks and true tunas. Little is known about the locomotion and energetics of warm-bodied sharks. Our review focuses on a few species of tunas but draws on information from other fish (especially salmonids) to fill in the gaps in our underst...

The PFRP was host to “Tagging and Tracking Marine Fish with Electronic Devices,” a major international symposium held at the East-West Center in Honolulu from February 7–11, 2000. More than 100 scientists and electronics manufacturers from a dozen countries assembled to share their findings and discuss the state-of-the-art in this rapidly developing field. Results from all of earth’s oceans wer...

+ /K + ATP-ase, HIF-1α, IL-1β and TNF-α in captive Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) after chronic warm and cold exposure a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Bluefin tuna Gene expression HIF-1α Hsp70 IL-1β Na + /K + ATP-ase TNF-α temperature Bluefin tuna (Thunnus spp.) are recently evolved teleosts with exceptional physiological and morphological specializations, whose aquac...

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the effects of supplementation of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids on vascular tone and endothelial function in healthy men and women aged 40 to 65 years. METHODS In a double-blind, randomised, placebo controlled study, 173 healthy volunteers took one of six oil supplements for 8 months. Supplements were placebo, oleic acid rich sunflower oil, evening primrose oil, soya bean oi...