Table 12.

The correlation of erythrocytic fatty acid composition and hepatic histopathological analysis scores in rats.

Fatty Acids 1	Inflammatory Cell Infiltration		Degeneration and Necrosis		Fatty Change
	r	p Value	r	p Value	r	p Value
C14:0	0.149	0.544	0.151	0.538	0.556	0.513
C16:0	0.020	0.937	−0.272	0.260	−0.159	0.516
C16:1	0.200	0.411	0.054	0.827	0.250	0.303
C18:0	−0.105	0.669	0.096	0.695	0.232	0.340
C18:1 (n-9)	0.359	0.131	0.667	0.002 *	0.218	0.370
C18:2 (LA, n-6)	−0.167	0.493	−0.565	0.012 *	−0.287	0.233
C20:0	−0.117	0.633	−0.439	0.060	-0.384	0.105
C20:2 (n-6)	−0.147	0.547	−0.252	0.298	−0.118	0.631
C20:3	0.353	0.138	0.121	0.622	0.044	0.860
C20:4 (AA, n-6)	−0.108	0.661	0	0.987	−0.088	0.719
C20:5 (EPA, n-3)	0.030	0.906	−0.201	0.409	−0.224	0.356
C22:0	−0.330	0.167	0.042	0.864	-0.171	0.484
C22:4	0.129	0.599	0.345	0.148	0.050	0.838
C22:5 (DPA, n-3)	−0.202	0.408	−0.377	0.111	0.017	0.943
C22:6 (DHA, n-3)	−0.179	0.465	−0.091	0.710	−0.085	0.729
SFAs	−0.127	0.604	−0.190	0.436	0.081	0.742
MUFAs	0.385	0.104	0.681	0.001 *	0.240	0.323
PUFAs	−0.096	0.697	−0.207	0.395	−0.245	0.313
Total n-3	−0.144	0.556	−0.307	0.201	−0.219	0.368
Total n-6	−0.251	0.299	−0.387	0.102	−0.276	0.253
Total n-9	0.359	0.131	0.667	0.002 *	0.218	0.370
SFAs/MUFAs	−0.307	0.201	−0.587	0.008 *	−0.178	0.465
SFAs/PUFAs	−0.028	0.907	0.090	0.715	0.247	0.307
MUFAs/PUFAs	0.210	0.389	0.465	0.045 *	0.353	0.138
SFAs/USFAs	−0.155	0.527	−0.221	0.364	0.119	0.628
n-6/n-3	−0.281	0.245	0.041	0.865	−0.162	0.507
n-9/n-3	−0.199	0.414	0.080	0.746	−0.071	0.771
n-9/n-6	0.353	0.139	0.687	0.001 *	0.271	0.261

* Correlation is significant (p < 0.05). ¹ LA, linoleic acid; ALA, alpha-linolenic acid; AA, arachidonic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; DPA, docosapentaenoic acid; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; SFAs, saturated fatty acids; MUFAs, monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFAs, polyunsaturated fatty acids; USFAs, unsaturated fatty acids.