TABLE 2.

Spearman correlations between dietary intake of fatty acid classes (% total fat) and individual PUFAs among women in the Nurses’ Health Study, 1980–2006¹

	SFAs	MUFAs	transFat	TotalPUFAs	Total n−6	Linoleic acid(18:2n−6)	AA(20:4n−6)	Total n−3 fats	ALA(18:3n−3)	Marine n−3 fats (EPA + DHA)
SFAs	1.0	0.05	−0.07	−0.65	−0.64	−0.66	−0.14	−0.36	−0.24	−0.32
MUFAs		1.0	0.33	−0.21	−0.18	−0.21	−0.01	−0.33	−0.33	−0.34
trans Fat			1.0	0.16	0.16	0.17	−0.25	−0.06	−0.01	−0.30
Total PUFAs				1.0	0.94	0.97	0.14	0.63	0.55	0.39
Total n−6					1.0	0.95	0.10	0.62	0.47	0.34
Linoleic acid (18:2n−6)						1.0	0.07	0.56	0.49	0.32
AA (20:4n−6)							1.0	0.32	0.09	0.56
Total n−3								1.0	0.73	0.70
ALA (18:3n−3)									1.0	0.39

¹P < 0.001 for all correlations. AA, arachidonic acid; ALA, α-linolenic acid.