A University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study has been able to find that consuming higher amounts of omega-3 fatty acids is not connected to lower heart disease risk for women suffering from type 1 diabetes.

Omega-3 fatty acids, chiefly found in fish, promote heart health by averting the increase of cholesterol in the arteries. Not much is known regarding the effect of consuming omega-3 in people with type 1diabetes, who are at much higher risk for heart disease.

The study involved 601 men and women enrolled in the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications Study, a long-standing potential assessment of childhood onset type 1diabetes that started in the year 1986. Volunteers had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes between 1950 and 1980.

While the reading was going on, 166 participants, 27.6%, were diagnosed with cardiovascular disease. In general, omega-3 intake amongst participants was on the lower side.

The occurrence of heart disease was lowest in men, who had the highest quantities of omega-3 intake, which is more than 0.2 grams for each day. Women, who consumed comparable amounts of omega-3, did not have inferior rates of heart disease.

The study is of the suggestion that it shouldn’t be assumed that men and women with type 1 diabetes are similar.