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Figure 3

From: Fatty acid patterns early after premature birth, simultaneously analysed in mothers' food, breast milk and serum phospholipids of mothers and infants

Figure 3

Box plot of the essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency index (the mead acid 20:3w9/arachidonic acid 20:4w6 ratio) in breast milk (unfilled) and in mothers' (M, grey) and infants' (I, dotted) plasma phospholipids from 1 week of age (early) to 44 weeks of gestational age. The boxes indicate medians and 25th–75th percentiles. Whiskers indicate 5th to 95th percentiles and outliers are indicated by separate symbols.

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Lipids in Health and Disease

ISSN: 1476-511X