ArticleScientific reports2019
Omega-3 fatty acids decrease oxidative stress and inflammation in macrophages from patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
52 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet and neuropsychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2026Pooled it
- The Impact of the Alternate Mediterranean Diet (aMED) on the Prevention of Chronic Liver Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Antioxidant supplementation for sickle cell disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Bridging the gap: Navigating the impact of dietary supplements on abdominal aortic aneurysm progression- A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Fish Consumption and the Risk of Chronic Disease: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses of Prospective Cohort Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
- Trial
- Long Chain Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Improve Vascular Stiffness in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2020Trial
- Protective effect of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) against prenatal cytarabine exposure-induced developmental toxicity in SD rat.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Bioactive potential of biomass and lipids of halophilic cyanobacterium and microalgae.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2026Article
- Circulating fatty acids and osteoarthritis: evidence from observational and genetic analyses.The British journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Association of erythrocyte fatty acid profiles with the presence and rupture of intracranial aneurysms.Lipids in health and disease · 2026Article
- Supplementation with GPR120 (Ffar4) ligand omega-3 does not improve survival in murine sepsis models.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Article
- Propolis compound inhibits profibrotic TGF-β1/SMAD signalling in human fibroblasts.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, 8-Week Pilot Study of Tuna-Byproduct-Derived Novel Supplements for Managing Cellular Senescence and Cognitive Decline in Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Women.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Environmental Stress-Induced Alterations in Embryo Developmental Morphokinetics.Journal of xenobiotics · 2024Review
- It takes two peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR-β/δ and PPAR-γ) to tango idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- Omega 3 fatty acids preserve testicular function by ameliorating BPF-induced dysthyroidism: role of p53/Bcl-2 signaling and proton pump activities.JBRA assisted reproduction · 2024Article
- Omega-3 fatty acids abrogates oxido-inflammatory and mitochondrial dysfunction-associated apoptotic responses in testis of tamoxifen-treated rats.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Microbiome-based therapies for Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Organic and Inorganic Selenium Compounds Affected Lipidomic Profile of Spleen of Lambs Fed with Diets Enriched in Carnosic Acid and Fish Oil.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is associated with inflammation and oxidative stress, the latter of which contributes to activation of macrophages, a prominent cell type in AAA. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) have been reported to limit oxidative stress in animal models of AAA. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the n-3 PUFA docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on antioxidant defence in macrophages from patients with AAA. Cells were obtained from men with small AAA (diameter 3.0-4.5 cm, 75 ± 6 yr, n = 19) and age- matched male controls (72 ± 5 yr, n = 41) and incubated with DHA for 1 h before exposure to 0.1 µg/mL lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for 24 h. DHA supplementation decreased the concentration of tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α; control, 42.1 ± 13.6 to 5.1 ± 2.1 pg/ml, p < 0.01; AAA, 25.2 ± 9.8 to 1.9 ± 0.9 pg/ml, p < 0.01) and interleukin-6 (IL-6; control, 44.9 ± 7.7 to 5.9 ± 2.0 pg/ml, p < 0.001; AAA, 24.3 ± 5.2 to 0.5 ± 0.3 pg/ml, p < 0.001) in macrophage supernatants. DHA increased glutathione peroxidase activity (control, 3.2 ± 0.3 to 4.1 ± 0.2 nmol/min/ml/μg protein, p = 0.004; AAA, 2.3 ± 0.5 to 3.4 ± 0.5 nmol/min/ml/μg protein, p = 0.008) and heme oxygenase-1 mRNA expression (control, 1.5-fold increase, p < 0.001). The improvements in macrophage oxidative stress status serve as a stimulus for further investigation of DHA in patients with AAA.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.