. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 9.

Published in final edited form as: J Inherit Metab Dis. 1999 Apr;22(2):123–131. doi: 10.1023/a:1005437616934

Table 2.

A dietary approach for correcting metabolic abnormalities associated with excess or deficiency of specific dietary fats

Component^a	Specific nutrient excess	Specific nutrient deficiency
LCFA or EFA	Plasma long-chain 3-hydroxy acylcarnitines Long-chain 3-hydroxydicarboxylic aciduria	Plasma essential fatty acid deficiency^b
MCT oil	Medium-chain dicarboxylic aciduria	Elevated blood lactate
DHA	No known complication	Plasma DHA deficiency

LCFA, long-chain fatty acids; EFA, essential fatty acids; MCT, medium-chain triglyceride; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid

Plasma EFA deficiency is defined as a triene: tetraene ratio ≥0.03