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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2013 Mar 13;127(14):1512–152218. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.001197

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Dietary factors independently associated with plasma phospholipid long-chain monounsaturated fatty acid (LCMUFA) concentrations – the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC, Minneapolis subcohort). Values represent each standard deviation (SD) difference of LCMUFA levels according to 1 servings/week of each food group; mean±SD of 20:1, 22:1, and 24:1 levels (% fatty acids) were 0.12±0.04, 0.03±0.01, and 1.96±0.44 in CHS and 0.12±0.03, 0.01±0.03, and 0.57±0.17 in ARIC, respectively. Food groups were selected by backward stepwise approach (pretain<0.05 and premove >0.1). Covariates were the same as those in the Table 1, except that the other phospholipid fatty acids were not adjusted for, which were potential mediators in this analysis. Negative correlates of LCMUFA included margarine, butter, and other sugary foods (Supplemental Figure 1), that may have reflected high levels of major shorter chain fatty acids. *Vegetables were first grouped into 7 categories based on 30; vegetables herein included celery, beet, zucchini, garlic, vegetable sauces, and mixed vegetables. Mixed meals included pasta, lasagna, pizza and other miscellaneous meals.