Table 3.

Fatty acid profile in plasma phospholipids before and after treatment.

Fatty Acid (%)	Before	After
16 0	14.70 ± 1.06	17.63 ± 1.19 ***
16 1	0.51 ± 1.06	0.42 ± 0.07 ns
18 0	29.25 ± 1.81	29.00 ± 1.78 ns
18 1 omega-9	4.99 ± 0.48	6.03 ± 0.89 ***
18 1 omega-7	1.74 ± 0.22	2.25 ± 0.23 ***
18 2	24.80 ± 1.98	14.48 ± 3.47 ***
18 3 omega-6	0.40 ± 0.05	0.40 ± 0.04
18 3 omega-3	0.36 ± 0.09	0.27 ± 0.13 *
20 3	1.75 ± 0.46	1.12 ± 0.19 ***
20 4	18.45 ± 2.72	10.66 ± 1.85 ***
20 5	0.25 ± 0.09	7.42 ± 2.42 ***
22 4	0.79 ± 0.22	0.16 ± 0.04 ***
22 5	1.94 ± 0.45	2.19 ± 0.58
22 6	0.50 ± 0.22	7.97 ± 1.64 ***
SFA	43.66 ± 2.29	46.64 ± 1.49 ***
MUFA	7.24 ± 1.29	8.70 ± 1.15 ***
PUFA	48.84 ± 1.27	44.46 ± 1.41 ***
Omega-6	45.77 ± 1.14	26.82 ± 4.00 ***
Omega-3	3.04 ± 0.64	17.85 ± 4.00 ***
Omega-6/omega-3	15.60 ± 2.92	1.69 ± 0.90 ***
Omega 3 index	0.75 ± 0.26	15.39 ± 3.63 ***
20 4/20 5	82.58 ± 36.51	1.79 ± 1.22 ***

*** p < 0.001, * p < 0.05, ns-non significant.