TABLE 2.

Correlations between dietary fats at the midpoint of follow-up (1998)¹

	NHS		HPFS
	MUFA-Ps	MUFA-As	MUFA-Ps	MUFA-As
MUFA-As	−0.08		−0.14
Total MUFAs	0.68	0.61	0.63	0.61
SFAs	0.21	0.83	0.20	0.81
PUFAs	0.59	0.18	0.66	0.04
trans Fats	0.35	0.47	0.47	0.39

¹Values are Spearman correlation coefficients. All P < 0.001. HPFS, Health Professionals Follow-Up Study; MUFA-A, MUFA from animal sources; MUFA-P, MUFA from plant sources; NHS, Nurses’ Health Study.