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Men tend to have lower DHA and higher DPA levels than women in blood, though evidence certainty is low.
This is a trial protocol testing whether fish oil added to metformin can improve early heart and artery health markers in young women with PCOS-related metabolic risk.
In rats, paternal DHA supplementation before conception did not prevent diet-induced obesity or liver fat problems in offspring, but it influenced fat-metabolism gene activity in a sex-specific way.
Genetically higher omega-6 and linoleic acid levels were linked to increased risk of endometriosis and infertility, while PCOS was linked to lower omega-3/DHA levels.
Adding fish-derived lipids to a healthy diet raised IL-10 (an anti-inflammatory marker) and was linked to a higher chance of pain improvement in women with endometriosis, though most other outcomes showed no significant difference between groups.
Seminal plasma from men with testicular germ cell tumors showed distinct metabolite and oxylipin patterns, including four lipid mediators that helped distinguish cancer samples from controls.