Table 5.
Crude Spearman rank correlations (r) between specific plasma phospholipid fatty acids and dairy products and meat and in all study participants (n 279) and by sex
| Fish and shellfish† (g/d) | Total fat from fish and shellfish† (g/d) | PUFA from fish and shellfish† (g/d) | Weekly fish intake‡ | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatty acid | All | Women | Men | All | Women | Men | All | Women | Men | All | Women | Men | |
| Total n-3 | 0·35*** | 0·36*** | 0·35*** | 0·34*** | 0·39*** | 0·29*** | 0·33*** | 0·38*** | 0·29*** | 0·45*** | 0·50*** | 0·38*** | |
| 20 : 5n-3 | 0·31*** | 0·33*** | 0·29*** | 0·26*** | 0·34*** | 0·17* | 0·25*** | 0·32*** | 0·17* | 0·41*** | 0·47*** | 0·30*** | |
| 22 : 6n-3 | 0·36*** | 0·36*** | 0·34*** | 0·38*** | 0·42*** | 0·34*** | 0·37*** | 0·42*** | 0·33*** | 0·44*** | 0·47*** | 0·40*** | |
*P ≤ 0·05, ***P < 0·001.
†Residual adjusted.
‡From questionnaire.