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Table 2 Effect of multiple doses of fish oil on human erythrocyte EPA and DHA content after 5 months of supplementation

From: A reexamination of krill oil bioavailability studies

EPA + DHA dose (mg/d)

0

300

600

900

1800

RBC EPA

0.47 ± 0.09a

0.91 ± 0.09b

1.23 ± 0.10bc

1.44 ± 0.09c

2.46 ± 0.09d

RBC DHA

3.87 ± 0.16a

5.30 ± 0.16b

5.60 ± 0.17bc

6.06 ± 0.16c

7.03 ± 0.16d

  1. Doses which produced a statistically different fatty acid content were denoted by differing superscripts (data from Flock et al. ref 12).
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Lipids in Health and Disease

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