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Jill Stein
July 8, 2009 (Paris, France) – While omega-3 supplements are only nominally better than placebo as a treatment for major depression, they provide significant benefit in depressed patients without comorbid anxiety. In addition, the supplements are well tolerated, according to results of the Omega-3D trial reported here at the 9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry (WCBP).
“We believe our findings are important because depressed patients without comorbid anxiety disorder account for about half of all depressed patients,” Francois Lesperance, MD, professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, in Quebec, told Medscape Psychiatry.
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