Table 2.

Blood levels of single fatty acids and different groups of fatty acids.

	Healthy controls		INS stable remission
Fatty acid	Average	s.d.	Average	s.d.
14:0 (%)	0.92	0.43	0.74	0.23
16:0 (%)	22.61	1.36	22.94	1.37
16:1n7 (%)	0.92	0.29	1.01	0.31
18:0 (%)	11.74	0.92	10.74	1.12
18:1n9 (%)	19.83	2.85	18.50	2.40
18:1n7 (%)	1.26	0.16	1.25	0.21
18:2n6 (%)	21.55	2.43	23.01	2.69
18:3n6 (%)	0.27	0.13	0.30	0.12
18:3n3 (%)	0.22	0.09	0.22	0.06
20:0 (%)	0.34	0.07	0.42	0.23
20:3n9 (%)	0.12	0.04	0.11	0.05
20:3n6 (%)	1.59	0.28	1.58	0.39
20:4n6 (%)	9.65	1.37	10.37	1.52
20:5n3 (%)	0.28	0.16	0.32	0.21
22:0 (%)	1.03	0.20	1.05	0.24
22:4n6 (%)	1.22	0.31	1.14	0.41
22:5n6 (%)	0.50	0.25	0.62	0.38
22:5n3 (%)	0.60	0.14	0.62	0.15
24:0 (%)	1.52	0.29	1.47	0.43
22:6n3 (%)	1.91	0.63	1.90	0.70
24:1n9 (%)	1.68	0.33	1.55	0.44
PUFA	37.91	3.30	40.17	2.97
SFA	38.15	1.93	37.22	2.12
MUFA	23.94	2.88	22.57	2.63
Omega-3	3.01	0.84	3.12	1.03
Omega-6	34.79	3.11	36.95	3.08

Fatty acid levels are expressed as percent of total fatty acids. P-value calculated at T-test.