How Fishy Is This Fish Oil Pill?
The Irish biotech Amarin (NASDAQ: AMRN) only has one drug, but it's a doozy. Vascepa is a purified form of fish oil extract, without DHA and other components. What is left behind is 1 gram of the omega-3 fatty acid EPA. It's this fishy fatty acid that does all the work in reducing a type of human fat known as triglycerides.
While everyone has heard of cholesterol, triglycerides are arguably just as important. Healthy people have a count of less than 150 milligrams per deciliter. Anything over 200 mg/dl is high -- and dangerous. In 2012, the FDA approved Vascepa as a drug that lowers your triglyceride count. But what's really exciting people is the Harvard study that was completed last year.
Source: Amarin.
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