Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a serious vascular disease. It's an aneurysm (swelling) of the aorta (main blood-vessel leading away from our heart muscle, down through your belly through to the rest of the body). AAA is histologically epitomized by:
- Oxidative stress
- Chronic (long lasting) inflammation
- Extracellular matrix degradation in the vascular wall
Preventative methods for hypoperfusion (shock)-induced AAA are still unknown. Scientists evaluated the effect that fish oil (FO) had on AAA development. In this trial they used a hypoperfusion-induced AAA animal model. The animals were divided into two groups: FO administered group and control group. The findings were as follows: dilation of the abdominal aorta in the FO-administration group was smaller than it was in the control group. Collagen destruction along with oxidative-stress was suppressed in the FO-administration group. These results go some way to suggested that FO might help to prevent the development of abdominal aortic aneurysm induced by hypoperfusion.
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The preventive effect of fish oil on abdominal aortic aneurysm development.
Kugo H, Zaima N, Mouri Y, Tanaka H, Yanagimoto K, Urano T, Unno N, Moriyama T.