Table 6.

Loadings for the first four principal components (PC).

Variables	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4
12:0	0.536	0.240	-0.171	0.557
14:0	0.128	0.167	-0.662	0.561
i-15:0	0.520	0.781	0.041	0.072
a-15:0	0.839	0.349	0.025	0.057
14:1c9	-0.888	0.106	-0.076	0.293
15:0	0.769	0.188	-0.162	0.432
i-16:0	0.597	0.698	0.030	0.012
16:0	0.291	0.076	-0.737	0.182
i-17:0	0.701	0.306	0.430	0.101
16:1c7	0.697	0.159	0.263	0.474
16:1c9	-0.922	0.157	-0.052	0.223
a-17:0	-0.685	0.456	0.137	0.202
17:0	0.842	-0.216	-0.128	-0.082
i18:0	0.329	0.601	-0.024	-0.337
17:1c9	-0.920	0.011	-0.102	0.187
18:0	0.944	-0.082	0.068	-0.218
18:1t6-t8	0.599	-0.632	0.212	0.197
18:1t9	0.278	-0.479	0.585	0.177
18:1t10	-0.036	-0.820	-0.146	0.221
18:1t11	0.683	-0.151	0.426	0.162
18:1t12	0.705	-0.279	0.253	0.111
18:1c9	-0.957	0.065	0.083	-0.002
18:1c11	-0.858	0.091	0.078	0.127
18:1c12	-0.732	-0.078	0.328	0.162
18:1c13	-0.913	-0.033	0.080	0.126
18:1t16+c14	0.775	0.212	0.365	0.148
18:1c15	-0.079	-0.407	-0.050	0.496
18:2n-6	0.370	-0.671	0.075	0.222
19:1	-0.735	0.150	0.283	0.327
20:0	0.908	-0.030	0.203	-0.020
18:3n-3	0.463	0.479	0.252	0.317
20:1c11	-0.719	-0.067	0.290	-0.085
18:2c9t11	-0.779	0.210	0.298	0.261
20:4n-6	0.189	-0.127	0.169	-0.094
Adipocytes area	-0.475	0.218	0.423	-0.031
Adipocytes number	0.480	-0.188	-0.412	0.009
Proportion of variance (%)	45.3	12.8	8.36	6.37
Cumulative variance (%)	45.3	58.1	66.5	72.8