TABLE 4.

Associations between dietary DHA, EPA, and ARA and neurodevelopment test scores for White children¹

		DHA, mg/d		EPA, mg/d		ARA, mg/d
	n	rho2	P	rho2	P	rho2	P
PPVT	174	0.137	0.072	0.128	0.093	–0.013	0.861
Beery	184	0.051	0.489	0.053	0.471	–0.043	0.558
KABC-II
Sequential	176	0.221	0.003	0.252	0.001	0.048	0.528
Learning	173	0.029	0.702	0.016	0.839	0.045	0.556
Simultaneous	183	–0.013	0.861	–0.005	0.943	–0.050	0.502
MPI	169	0.044	0.566	0.061	0.430	–0.020	0.800
Delayed Recall	171	–0.027	0.723	–0.051	0.510	0.015	0.843

¹ARA, arachidonic acid; Beery, Beery–Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration; KABC-II, Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd edition; MPI, Mental Performance Index; PPVT, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test.

²Values are Spearman's correlation coefficients for the association between dietary fatty acids and neurodevelopmental test score for White children.