. 2017 Nov 22;59(1):123–136. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M080309

TABLE 2.

Effect of pregnancy and postpartum on the fatty acid composition of plasma PE

Fatty Acid	Baseline	15 Days of Pregnancy	20 Days of Pregnancy	7 Days Postpartum
	weight % of total fatty acids
14:0	2.47 ± 2.48	2.14 ± 0.34	2.29 ± 0.16	2.87 ± 0.53
16:0	15.18 ± 5.29	15.11 ± 1.45	17.38 ± 1.50	18.79 ± 1.02
18:0	23.86 ± 5.51^a	33.44 ± 2.74^b	34.60 ± 2.80^b	38.38 ± 2.37^b
20:0	0.42 ± 0.09	0.40 ± 0.11	0.44 ± 0.05	0.53 ± 0.04
22:0	0.48 ± 0.15	0.38 ± 0.14	0.50 ± 0.06	0.30 ± 0.03
24:0	0.90 ± 0.46	0.66 ± 0.23	0.60 ± 0.08	0.40 ± 0.04
∑SFAs	45.54 ± 7.37^a	55.48 ± 1.14^b	60.62 ± 3.26^b	65.69 ± 1.47^b
14:1	0.09 ± 0.05	0.16 ± 0.06	0.01 ± 0.01	0.10 ± 0.04
16:1	2.92 ± 1.67	3.50 ± 0.40	1.94 ± 0.11	2.23 ± 0.47
18:1n-7	1.13 ± 1.08	0.57 ± 0.11	0.59 ± 0.22	0.50 ± 0.05
18:1n-9	18.46 ± 8.23^b	7.86 ± 1.15^ab	9.86 ± 2.64^ab	5.91 ± 1.23^a
20:1n-9	0.36 ± 0.31^ab	0.65 ± 0.18^b	0.27 ± 0.08^a	0.25 ± 0.07^ab
22:1n-9	0.59 ± 0.21^ab	1.33 ± 0.28^b	0.40 ± 0.14^a	0.92 ± 0.14^ab
24:1n-9	0.71 ± 0.20	0.59 ± 0.26	0.35 ± 0.07	0.35 ± 0.12
∑MUFAs	24.33 ± 7.13^b	14.75 ± 1.28^ab	13.48 ± 2.65^a	10.27 ± 1.34^a
18:2n-6	4.37 ± 1.36	3.58 ± 0.87	2.71 ± 0.40	2.86 ± 0.57
18:3n-6	2.81 ± 4.07	0.48 ± 0.14	0.22 ± 0.02	0.44 ± 0.07
20:2n-6	0.28 ± 0.13	0.24 ± 0.14	0.09 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.02
20:3n-6	0.40 ± 0.22^a	0.50 ± 0.08^a	0.23 ± 0.05 ^a	0.92 ± 0.08^b
20:4n-6	14.27 ± 4.8	18.26 ± 2.40	15.63 ± 1.47	13.83 ± 1.88
22:2n-6	0.34 ± 0.20	0.38 ± 0.15	0.16 ± 0.06	0.20 ± 0.04
22:4n-6	0.50 ± 0.23	0.45 ± 0.13	0.36 ± 0.08	0.44 ± 0.12
22:5n-6	0.76 ± 0.43	0.56 ± 0.30	0.82 ± 0.20	0.36 ± 0.07
∑n-6 PUFAs	23.73 ± 5.69	24.45 ± 1.73	20.22 ± 1.81	19.16 ± 1.90
18:3n-3	0.69 ± 0.67	0.35 ± 0.13	0.26 ± 0.06	0.29 ± 0.07
20:3n-3	0.28 ± 0.17	0.29 ± 0.17	0.24 ± 0.05	0.11 ± 0.03
20:5n-3	0.70 ± 0.34^b	0.29 ± 0.08^ab	0.08 ± 0.02^a	0.14 ± 0.05^b
22:5n-3	0.75 ± 0.35	0.66 ± 0.22	0.53 ± 0.11	0.73 ± 0.16
22:6n-3	1.26 ± 0.22^a	1.84 ± 0.33^ab	3.16 ± 0.67^b	1.53 ± 0.15^a
∑n-3 PUFAs	3.68 ± 0.84	3.44 ± 0.65	4.27 ± 0.65	2.81 ± 0.25
∑PUFAs	27.41 ± 6.43	27.89 ± 1.80	24.49 ± 1.73	21.97 ± 2.14
Total fatty acids (mg/100 ml)	17.68 ± 10.20	12.18 ± 1.87	21.43 ± 1.17	18.97 ± 3.36

Values are expressed as mean ± SD, n = 6 for each group. Fatty acids with different superscripts are significantly different by Tukey’s post hoc test (P < 0.05) following significant F-value by one-way ANOVA. SFAs, saturated fatty acids.