Table 2.

Characteristics of the participants.

	Control		ALA
	Means	SD	Means	SD	p-Value
Number of subjects	30		30
Gender, % female	53.3		46.7
Age(years)	72.1	4.3	71.9	3.7	0.411
Height(m)	1.6	0.1	1.6	0.1	0.813
Body weight(kg)	57.0	9.3	58.9	7.5	0.400
BMI(kg/m2)	22.4	2.5	23.1	2.1	0.273
ω-3 PUFA intake(g/day)
pre-intervention	2.16	0.72	2.35	0.87	0.354
post-intervention	2.50	0.91	2.54	1.00	0.852
ω-6 PUFA intake(g/day)
pre-intervention	10.80	3.15	10.34	3.33	0.587
post-intervention	11.49	3.76	11.23	4.06	0.803