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No better than regular fish oil but costs hundreds of dollars a month.

A way to scam money out of Medicare.

Using mineral oil in the study to make their product look superior.

I'm not the only one to share those concerns: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2018/11/10/fish-o...

The biomarkers of patients in the PLACEBO group decreased significantly (up to 30%). Why?

"But what seriously bothered five of the six cardiologists I spoke to was that the mineral oil had not behaved as a placebo at all. In other studies of cardiovascular drugs, blood test results on placebo do not budge. That’s not what happened here. Patients who received mineral oil saw their levels of low-density lipoprotein, the bad cholesterol, increase 10% to 84 milligrams per deciliter, 6% more than in the Vascepa group, according to the New England Journal of Medicine paper. What’s more, other blood test results used by cardiologists also went in the wrong direction. These changes were included in a supplement to the scientific paper, but not in the study itself. Levels of c-reactive protein, a measure of inflammation that is used to help calculate heart risk by some doctors, increased from 2.1 milligrams per liter to 2.8 milligrams per liter, a 30% increase. Could the placebo be causing some heart problems or strokes, making Vascepa look better than it really is?"

Shame on NPR for the sloppy reporting.