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| Title |
Response to commentary on a trial comparing krill oil versus fish oil
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| Published in |
Lipids in Health and Disease, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1476-511x-13-17 |
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| Authors |
Vanu R Ramprasath, Inbal Eyal, Sigalit Zchut, Peter JH Jones |
| Abstract |
Nichols et al. (Lipids Health Dis13:2, 2014) raised concern about the higher n-6 concentration in fish oil used in our recent study which is different from typical commercial fish oils (Ramprasath et al. Lipids Health Dis12:178, 2013). The aim of our study was to compare the effect of consumption of similar amount of n-3 PUFA from krill and fish oil with placebo on plasma and RBC fatty acids. As the concentration of n-3 PUFA in the fish oil utilised was higher than that in krill oil, we deemed it important to keep consistent the concentration of n-3 PUFA and volumes to be administered to participants between krill versus fish oils. As such, the fish oil used in the study was diluted with corn oil. Although the n-6 PUFA concentration in fish oil was higher compared to traditionally used fish oil, consumption of the fish oil used in our study actually reduced the total n-6 PUFA in plasma and RBC to a similar extent as did krill oil. Overall, our conclusion was that the increases in plasma and RBC concentrations of EPA and DHA along with improvement in the omega-3 index observed with consumption of krill oil compared with fish oil are due to differences in absorption and bioavailability based on the structural difference of the two oils rather than their n-6 PUFA content. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 22 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 6 | 26% |
| Other | 4 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 9% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Unknown | 2 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 48% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 30% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 9% |
| Chemistry | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 2 | 9% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 November 2019.
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#6,404,409
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#403
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#76,172
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#6
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