Table 5.

Spearman’s correlations of dietary fatty acid intakes with their corresponding plasma biomarkers at baseline and 6 months follow up in the pilot study of the “Feeding Americas Bravest.”

	Baseline Corresponding Plasma Biomarker				6-Months Follow up Corresponding Plasma Biomarker
	Control		Intervention		Control Intervention		Intervention Self-Sustained Phase
Nutrients (from FFQ)		p-Value		p-Value		p-Value		p-Value
SFA	0.137	0.524	0.178	0.406	−0.038	0.874	0.295	0.194
Lauric fatty acid	−0.094	0.662	0.227	0.286	−0.191	0.420	−0.054	0.818
Myristic fatty acid	−0.123	0.566	0.166	0.439	−0.315	0.177	0.184	0.425
Palmitic fatty acid	−0.096	0.654	0.133	0.537	0.177	0.455	0.570	0.007
Stearic fatty acid	0.020	0.925	−0.072	0.738	0.387	0.092	−0.128	0.581
Palmitoleic acid	−0.039	0.857	0.018	0.935	−0.614	0.004	0.226	0.324
MUFA	0.079	0.715	0.152	0.477	−0.295	0.206	0.262	0.251
Oleic acid	−0.165	0.441	−0.357	0.087	0.062	0.795	0.021	0.928
PUFA	−0.260	0.220	−0.059	0.785	0.134	0.573	−0.316	0.163
Linoleic acid	−0.191	0.373	0.210	0.324	0.127	0.593	−0.090	0.699
Alfa-Linolenic acid	0.217	0.307	0.302	0.152	0.073	0.760	−0.083	0.722
Omega-3 fatty acids	0.624	0.001	0.381	0.066	0.741	<0.001	0.396	0.075
Eicosapentaenoic fatty acid (EPA)	0.466	0.022	0.441	0.031	0.688	<0.001	0.621	0.003
Docosahexahenoico (DHA)	0.673	<0.001	0.347	0.097	0.775	<0.001	0.292	0.198
Total Trans fatty acid	0.080	0.711	−0.033	0.878	−0.081	0.733	−0.059	0.800
Conjugated linoleic acid	−0.148	0.490	0.122	0.570	−0.066	0.783	0.726	<0.001

SFA: Saturated Fatty Acids; MUFA: Monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acids.