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Table 3 Spearman correlation coefficients between food-frequency questionnaire derived dietary fish as well as fatty acid compositions and plasma fatty acid compositions in all study participants, after adjusting for age, gender and total energy intake

From: A Taiwanese food frequency questionnaire correlates with plasma docosahexaenoic acid but not with plasma eicosapentaenoic acid levels: questionnaires and plasma biomarkers

Questionnaire

Deep sea fish

Other fish

Seafood

Total fish & seafood

Saturated fat (% fat)

Monounsaturated fat (% fat)

Polyunsaturated fat (% fat)

C20:5 (% fat)

C22:5 (% fat)

C22:6 (% fat)

Plasma composition

          

Saturated fat

−0.125*

0.044

−0.053

−0.013

0.116*

−0.030

−0.007

−0.073

−0.055

−0.048

Monounsaturated fat

0.007

−0.042

0.003

−0.025

0.145*

0.054

−0.131*

0.001

0.060

0.019

Polyunsaturated fat

0.042

−0.004

0.036

0.012

−0.208***

−0.016

0.087

0.010

−0.040

−0.014

N-6 fatty acid

−0.002

−0.069

0.025

−0.056

−0.214***

−0.018

0.082

−0.067

−0.102

−0.090

N-3 fatty acid

0.193***

0.274***

0.035

0.313***

−0.016

0.043

0.032

0.334***

0.261***

0.321***

Marine fatty acid

0.196***

0.284***

0.038

0.318***

0.015

0.074

0.000

0.336***

0.271***

0.328***

EPA (20:5n-3)

−0.012

0.003

−0.040

0.023

−0.070

−0.076

0.091

−0.009

−0.034

−0.028

DHA (22:6n-3)

0.207***

0.294***

0.043

0.327***

0.021

0.088

−0.010

0.351***

0.287***

0.346***

  1. The corresponding dietary intake includes all isomers of 20:1.
  2. *: P < 0.05, **: P < 0.01, ***: P < 0.001.