Table 2.

Spearman’s rank correlation of erythrocyte saturated fatty acids (n = 2683) ^a.

	14:0	16:0	18:0	20:0	22:0	24:0
14:0	1
16:0	0.253 ***	1
18:0	0.286 ***	0.310 ***	1
20:0	0.135 ***	0.037	0.209 ***	1
22:0	−0.070 ***	−0.298 ***	−0.050 *	0.374 ***	1
24:0	−0.173 ***	−0.212 ***	−0.088 ***	0.328 ***	0.583 ***	1

Abbreviations: 14-carbon tail, zero double bonds (14:0), myristic acid; 16:0, palmitic acid; 18:0, stearic acid; 20:0, arachidic acid; 22:0, behenic acid; 24:0, lignoceric acid. ^a Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients were calculated between individual erythrocyte saturated fatty acids; * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001.