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Published in final edited form as: Mol Nutr Food Res. 2015 Jul 7;59(9):1780–1790. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201500161

Table 5.

Fatty acid composition of total lipids in breast adipose at baseline and 3 months^a)

Fatty acid	Time	Fish (n = 12) Mean ± SD	Capsules (n = 13) Mean ± SD
C14:0	0	2.58 ± 0.36	2.50 ± 0.48
	3	2.53 ± 0.50	2.53 ± 0.5
C16:0	0	20.9 ± 1.90	20.67 ± 1.67
	3	20.81 ± 2.33	20.25 ± 1.74
C16:1n7	0	3.09 ± 1.13	2.71 ± 0.73
	3	2.9 ± 1.05	2.57 ± 0.94
C18:0	0	5.19 ± 1.23	5.41 ± 1.01
	3	5.17 ± 1.28	5.73 ± 1.24
C18:1n9	0	43.22 ± 1.89	43.3 ± 1.95
	3	43.41 ± 2.37	42.98 ± 2.12
C18:1n7	0	2.4 ± 0.25	2.27 ± 0.21
	3	2.30 ± 0.23	2.23 ± 0.27
LA	0	18.58 ± 2.11	19.21 ± 1.87
	3	18.82 ± 2.26	19.56 ± 2.11
C18:3n6	0	0.11 ± 0.06	0.09 ± 0.02
	3	0.09 ± 0.02	0.1 ± 0.02
C18:3n3	0	0.93 ± 0.10	1.00 ± 0.23
	3	0.97 ± 0.15	1.01 ± 0.27
C20:2n6	0	0.26 ± 0.06	0.26 ± 0.05
	3	0.26 ± 0.06	0.25 ± 0.05
C20:3n6	0	0.29 ± 0.1	0.27 ± 0.11
	3	0.26 ± 0.06	0.24 ± 0.1
C20:4n6	0	0.45 ± 0.14	0.42 ± 0.16
	3	0.40 ± 0.09	0.45 ± 0.26
EPA^b)	0	0.04 ± 0.02	0.04 ± 0.02
	3	0.06 ± 0.04	0.10 ± 0.12
C22:4n6	0	0.16 ± 0.06	0.15 ± 0.07
	3	0.15 ± 0.04	0.15 ± 0.07
C22:5n3	0	0.3 ± 0.1	0.26 ± 0.11
	3	0.31 ± 0.1	0.32 ± 0.11
DHA^b)	0	0.16 ± 0.07	0.13 ± 0.08
	3	0.20 ± 0.11	0.21 ± 0.18
n3/n6^b),c)	0	0.07 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.01
	3	0.08 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.02

^a)

Values are expressed as mean % of total fatty acids ± SD.

^b)

3 month values are significantly higher than baseline, p < 0.01.

^c)

The n-3/n-6 ratio represents the sum of [18:3n3, 20:5n3, 22:5n3, 22:6n3]/sum of [18:2n6, 18:3n6, 20:2n6, 20:3n6, 20:4n6, 22:4n6].