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To the Editor: Ascherio and coworkers (April 13 issue)¹ reported findings on dietary fish intake and the risk of coronary heart disease and concluded that there was no relation. There was, however, an increased risk of coronary-artery bypass grafting in the two groups with the highest fish intake. Selection bias appears an unlikely explanation.

In our study of 1833 Eastern Finnish men with a high fish intake, men in the upper half of the fish-intake distribution (30 g per day in four-day food records) had 1.9 times the risk (adjusted for risk factors; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.1 to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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