Omega-7 oil: a new heart helper?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

* INCLUSION CRITERIA: * Male and female participants 18 years of age or above. * Subject must be healthy, with no known history of cardiovascular disease. * Post-menopausal or women of childbearing potential must be non-lactating and using an effective form of birth control during the course of the study. * Subject understands protocol and provides written, informed consent in addition to a willingness to comply with specified follow-up evaluations. * Subjects with triglyceride levels above 100 mg/dL EXCLUSION CRITERIA: * Pregnancy, planned pregnancy (within the study period), or women currently breastfeeding. * Subjects with allergy or known hypersensitivity to fish, omega-3-acid ethyl esters, omega-7 ethyl esters, other related drugs, or any component of study drugs * Subjects with weight changes greater than 20% over the past 3 months. * Subjects planning a significant change in diet or exercise levels. * Subjects already consuming more than 2 g per day of MUFA, PUFA or other forms of fatty acid supplement if determined by the investigator as having a potential to interfere in the data quality or patient safety. * Subjects with chronic diarrhea, gastric bypass or lap-band procedures, ostomies, bowel motility problems, or other known conditions that could affect intestinal fat absorption. * Subjects with any acute and life-threatening condition, such but not limited to as prior sudden cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction (last three months), stroke, embolism as per investigator assessment. * Subjects taking supplements or medications that affect lipoproteins for at least the past 8 weeks, such as fish oil supplements, bile-acid sequestrants, plant sterol supplements, fibrates, statins, Niacin or PCSK9 inhibitors. * Subjects being treated with tamoxifen, estrogens, or progestins that have not been stable for \>4 weeks. * Subjects initiating new medications or patients on multiple medications may also be excluded according to investigator discretion. * Anticipated surgery during the study period. * Liver enzymes (AST or ALT) levels above 3x upper limit of normal. * Blood donation in the last 2 weeks or planned blood donation during the study. * Subjects requiring regular transfusions for any reason. * Subjects may also be excluded for any reason that may compromise their safety or the accuracy of research data or for not complying with protocol directions. * Abnormal baseline laboratory values that are considered not clinically significant by the PI will not exclude the subject.