Table 7. Serum phospholipid fatty acid level (% of TFA) in 4 areas and correlations with fatty acid intakes assessed with either DR³ or FFQ⁴ in men (n=88).

				Spearman correlation
				DR			FFQ
	Mean	± SD	Median	crude	energy-adjusted1	% of TFA2	crude	energy-adjusted1	% of TFA2
SFA2	47.4	± 2.8	47.0	-0.01	0.02	-0.08	-0.15	-0.09	-0.01
14:0	0.4	± 0.2	0.4	0.02	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.00	0.08
16:0	28.7	± 2.3	28.8	-0.20	-0.28	-0.02	-0.32	-0.44	-0.21
18:0	15.1	± 1.7	15.0	0.07	0.13	-0.01	0.09	0.23	0.11
MUFA2	13.6	± 1.6	13.4	0.00	0.08	0.39	-0.13	0.04	0.19
16:1	0.6	± 0.3	0.6	0.05	0.01	0.22	-0.18	-0.16	0.10
18:1	8.8	± 1.3	8.5	-0.02	0.04	0.36	-0.15	-0.05	0.19
PUFA2	38.9	± 3.4	39.3	0.14	0.02	0.09	0.29	0.19	0.16
n-3 PUFA	12.4	± 3.3	12.4	0.46	0.31	0.69	0.29	0.21	0.64
18:3n-3	0.2	± 0.2	0.2	0.03	-0.05	0.14	-0.14	-0.09	-0.03
20:5n-3	3.7	± 1.6	3.4	0.75	0.73	0.76	0.43	0.44	0.59
22:5n-3	1.2	± 0.4	1.2	0.47	0.33	0.51	0.45	0.39	0.56
22:6n-3	7.3	± 1.7	7.1	0.43	0.42	0.50	0.35	0.32	0.49
n-6 PUFA	26.5	± 3.6	26.9	0.25	0.44	0.03	0.04	0.20	-0.37
18:2n-6	17.4	± 3.1	17.6	0.20	0.27	-0.01	0.16	0.18	-0.12
20:3n-6	1.7	± 0.5	1.7	-0.18	-0.14	-0.34	0.00	0.05	-0.23
20:4n-6	6.4	± 1.4	6.2	-0.20	0.18	-0.22	-0.13	0.00	-0.22
n-6/n-3 ratio	2.4	± 0.9	2.2	0.71			0.45
n-3/20:4n-6 ratio	2.1	± 0.8	2.1	0.41			0.41
PUFA/SFA ratio	0.8	± 0.1	0.8	-0.02			0.08

¹Energy was adjusted by residual model for intake.

²TFA, total fatty acid; SFA, saturated fatty acid; MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acid.

³DR, dietary records.

⁴FFQ, food frequency questionnaire.

For n=88, r>0.21 = p<0.05, r>0.28 = p<0.01, r>0.35 = p<0.001.