TABLE 3.

Proportional hepatic fatty acid composition of the NAFL⁻ and NAFL⁺ groups

	NAFL−	NAFL+
14:0	1.54 ± 0.19	1.87 ± 0.26
14:1n-9	0.28 ± 0.04	0.21 ± 0.02
16:0	27.6 ± 1.08	29.6 ± 1.11
16:1n-7	3.57 ± 0.32	3.89 ± 0.25
18:0	8.91 ± 0.50	6.86 ± 0.37*
18:1n-9	31.7 ± 1.53	38.5 ± 1.20*
18:1n-7	2.68 ± 0.14	2.771 ± 0.18
18:2n-6	12.9 ± 0.85	10.8 ± 0.94
18:3n-6	0.15 ± 0.03	0.12 ± 0.02
18:3n-3	0.90 ± 0.07	1.00 ± 0.07
20:3n-6	0.95 ± 0.10	0.45 ± 0.08*
20:4n-6	4.56 ± 0.47	2.15 ± 0.35†
20:5n-3	0.56 ± 0.07	0.20 ± 0.03†
22:5n-3	0.66 ± 0.10	0.28 ± 0.05*
22:6n-3	3.19 ± 0.44	1.37 ± 0.25*
16:0 FFA	41.3 ± 1.22	39.5 ± 0.63
18:0 FFA	37.9 ± 1.96	30.7 ± 1.79‡
18:1 FFA	14.1 ± 1.88	22.1 ± 1.66*
18:2 FFA	6.73 ± 0.94	7.78 ± 0.27
16:0 FFA (μg/mg)	0.55 ± 0.08	0.58 ± 0.05
18:0 FFA (μg/mg)	0.49 ± 0.07	0.45 ± 0.05
18:1 FFA (μg/mg)	0.18 ± 0.03	0.32 ± 0.04*
18:2 FFA (μg/mg)	0.08 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.01‡

Data are means ± SE.

^*P < 0.01,

^†P < 0.05,

^‡P < 0.001.