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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2012 Aug 19;31:48–53. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2012.08.007

Table 2.

Linear correlations of demographics with baseline fatty acid profiles: omega-6 fatty acids, di-homo-gamma-linolineic acid (DGLA) and arachidonic acid (AA); and omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). For race, European ancestry = 1 and African ancestry = 2. For Gender, male = 1 and female = 2.

Age Weight Race Gender
DGLA B = 0.006 +/- 0.006 B = 0.003 +/- 0.002 B = -0.41 +/- 0.18 B = 0.21 +/- 0.13
p=0.32 p=0.06 p=0.02 p=0.12
AA B = -0.03 +/- 0.02 B = 0.01 +/- 0.006 B = 1.63 +/- 0.6 B = -0.15 +/- 0.46
p=0.15 p=0.09 p=0.008 p=0.74
EPA B = 0.001 +/- 0.001 B = 0.00 +/- 0.00 B = 0.003 +/- 0.022 B = 0.004 +/- 0.016
p=0.29 p=0.26 p=0.88 p=0.82
DHA B = 0.006 +/- 0.003 B = 0.00 +/- 0.001 B = 0.3 +/- 0.09 B = 0.17 +/- 0.07
p=0.04 p=0.54 p=0.001 p=0.01
AA/EPA+DHA B = -0.27 +/- 0.14 B = -0.04 +/- 0.04 B = -7.55 +/- 4.02 B = -7.99+/- 3.07
p=0.049 p=0.26 p=0.06 p=0.01
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