Table 3.

Spearmans rank correlation coefficients between the abundance of palmitate, oleate, and linoleate in circulating lipid fractions and the relative percentages of energy intake from dietary saturated fatty acids (SFA), polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA).

Mol (%)	Dietary SFA (%TE)	Dietary MUFA (%TE)	Dietary PUFA (%TE)
Triglyceride (TG) palmitate	-0.029
Phospholipid (PL) palmitate	-0.003
Cholesterol ester (CE) palmitate	0.031
TG oleate		-0.057
PL oleate		-0.364
CE oleate		-0.210
TG linoleate			0.211
PL linoleate			0.198
CE linoleate			0.372*

^*P < 0.05. n = 46 for TG, n = 27 for PL and n = 44 for CE.