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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Nutr Food Res. 2016 Mar 22;60(5):1206–1212. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201500744

TABLE 3.

Relationship between erythrocyte linoleic acid (LA) and body composition, HOMA-IR and inflammation in men and women

Outcome1 Adjusted for
trunk
adipose?
N Predictor
Linoleic acid
Oleic acid
LC-Ω3-SUM
Coef. SE p ICC Coef. SE p ICC Coef. SE p ICC
Trunk adipose 139 −1.83 0.46 0.0001 0 −0.28 0.51 0.59 0 −0.04 0.47 0.92 0
ALM/BMI No 139 0.019 0.008 0.015 0.26 0.0033 0.008 0.70 0.23 0.0045 0.008 0.55 0.22
ALM/BMI Yes 139 0.006 0.007 0.41 0.29 0.0028 0.008 0.71 0.29 0.0047 0.007 0.48 0.29
ln(HOMA-IR) No 135 −0.19 0.07 0.006 0.05 −0.071 0.07 0.32 0.08 −0.059 0.06 0.35 0.13
ln(HOMA-IR) Yes 135 −0.018 0.06 0.75 0.14 −0.051 0.06 0.37 0.14 −0.064 0.05 0.20 0.21
ln(IL-6) No 133 −0.17 0.04 0.0003 0.34 −0.095 0.05 0.057 0.23 −0.05 0.05 0.27 0.25
ln(IL-6) Yes 133 −0.082 0.04 0.053 0.43 −0.086 0.04 0.042 0.40 −0.05 0.04 0.22 0.39
ln(CRP) No 131 −0.30 0.08 0.0004 0 −0.20 0.09 0.028 0 −0.14 0.08 0.083 0
ln(CRP) Yes 131 −0.15 0.08 0.067 0 −0.17 0.08 0.028 0 −0.14 0.07 0.046 0
1

Adjusted for age, sex, caloric expenditure per week, cancer history, and study

Coef. = estimated regression coefficient; SE = standard error; ICC = intraclass correlation