Skip to main content

Table 5 Serum phospholipid fatty acids (mol %) in mothers' and infants' plasma at 40 and 44 week.

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

Fatty acid

Mothers' plasma

at 40 w

(n = 29)

Mothers' plasma

at 44 w

(n = 29)

r (p) mothers

40 and 44 w

(n = 29)

Infants' plasma

at 40 w

(n = 36)

Infants' plasma

at 44 w

(n = 45)

r (p) infants

40 and 44 w

(n = 36)

12:0

0.02 (0.01)

0.02 (0.01)

0.66 (0.000)

0.03 (0.02)

0.03 (0.02)

0.55 (0.000)

14:0

0.49 (0.13)

0.45 (0.11)

0.57 (0.001)

0.44 (0.11)

0.38 (0.10)§

0.52 (0.001)

16:0

32.1 (1.17)

31.6 (1.29)

0.61 (0.001)

28.5 (1.16)

28.9 (1.43)§

0.78 (0.000)

18:0

12.3 (1.19)

12.4 (0.91)

0.78 (0.000)

16.2 (1.14)

15.9 (1.21)§

0.73 (0.000)

ÎŁ SFA

48.3 (0.69)

47.9 (1.10)

0.63 (0.000)

48.2 (0.77)

48.3 (0.89)

0.29 (0.140)

16:1w7

0.70 (0.19)

0.58 (0.16)

0.46 (0.012)

0.40 (0.08)

0.35 (0.08)§§

0.82 (0.000)

18:1w9

10.2 (1.17)

10.0 (0.99)

0.62 (0.000)

11.2 (0.75)

11.0 (0.94)

0.54 (0.001)

24:1w9

2.98 (0.40)

3.00 (0.42)

0.67 (0.000)

2.81 (0.49)

2.67 (0.47)§

0.50 (0.002)

ÎŁ MUFA

13.8 (1.41)

13.6 (1.04)

0.75 (0.000)

14.4 (0.86)

14.0 (0.82)§

0.52 (0.001)

20:3w9 Mead

0.22 (0.09)

0.21 (0.09)

0.69 (0.000)

0.16 (0.06)

0.14 (0.04)§

0.75 (0.000)

18:2w6 (LA)

21.6 (1.47)

22.0 (2.29)

0.38 (0.045)

20.9 (2.47)

22.0 (2.74)§

0.68 (0.000)

18:3w6 (GLA)

0.08 (0.05)

0.08 (0.05)

0.68 (0.000)

0.05 (0.02)

0.04 (0.02)

0.67 (0.000)

20:3w6(DGLA)

3.14 (0.56)

2.98 (0.70)

0.75 (0.000)

2.99 (0.55)

2.79 (0.57)§

0.68 (0.000)

20:4w6 (AA)

7.8 (1.02)

8.0 (1.21)

0.82 (0.000)

8.75 (1.65)

8.4 (1.80)

0.79 (0.000)

ÎŁ w6 FA

32.9 (1.53)

33.3 (1.84)

0.50 (0.006)

33.0 (1.06)

33.6 (1.02)§

0.29 (0.092)

18:3w3 (ALA)

0.32 (0.10)

0.32 (0.10)

0.67 (0.000)

0.15 (0.03)

0.17 (0.04)§

0.60 (0.000)

20:5w3 (EPA)

1.21 (0.34)

1.35(0.38)*

0.70 (0.000)

0.61 (0.25)

0.53 (0.32)

0.79 (0.000)

22:6w3 DHA

3.25 (0.88)

3.31 (1.09)

0.76 (0.000)

3.40 (0.73)

3.43 (0.97)

0.73 (0.000)

ÎŁ w3 FA

4.8 (0.96)

5.0 (1.23)

0.68 (0.000)

4.2 (0.85)

4.1 (1.18)

0.73 (0.000)

ÎŁ PUFA

37.9 (1.50)

38.5 (1.37)

0.57 (0.001)

37.4 (1.16)

37.8 (0.93)§

0.60 (0.000)

Ratios:

      

AA/DHA

2.6 (0.86)

2.7 (1.12)

0.88 (0.000)

2.7 (0.62)

2.6 (0.58)§

0.83 (0.000)

w6/w3

7.1 (1.50)

7.13 (1.99)

0.58 (0.001)

8.3 (1.94)

8.9 (2.96)

0.71 (0.000)

  1. In mothers of twins only one value is given. Mean (SD). For abbreviations see table 4.
  2. Pearson correlation coefficients. Paired t-test was used for testing differences between 40 and 44 weeks, for mothers * p < 0.05 (n = 29) and for infants §p < 0.05, §§ p < 0.001 (n = 36).