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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research International Journal of Hypertension Volume 2011, Article ID 809198, 7 pages doi:10.4061/2011/809198 Research Article Effects of Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation on Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and Serum Lipids in Scottish Men with Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia Miki Sagara,1, 2 Marina Njelekela,3 Takanori Teramoto,2 Takashi Taguchi,2, 4 Mari Mori,4 Lesley Armitage,5 Nina Birt,6 Christopher Birt,7 and Yukio Yamori1, 2, 4 1 Laboratory of Preventive Nutritional Medicine, Research Institute for Production Development, Kyoto 606-0805, Japan 2 International Center for Research on Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases, Kyoto 606-8413, Japan 3 Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P.O. Box 65001, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 4 Institute for World Health Development, Mukogawa Women’s University, Nishinomiya 663-8143, Japan 5 Department of Public Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B75 2TT, UK 6 Peninsula Health, Wirral CH41 8DB, UK 7 Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 2GB, UK Correspondence should be addressed to Yukio Yamori, yamori@ Received 1 November 2010; Accepted 17 January 2011 Academic Editor: C. Borghi Copyright © 2011 Miki Sagara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To investigate the effects of daily supplementation with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on coronary heart disease risks in 38 middle-aged men with hypertension and/or hypercholesterolemia in Scotland, a five-week double-blind placebo-controlled dietary