Nutrition & Metabolism

Table 3 Correlations between serum EPA/AA, DHA/AA, (EPA+DHA)/AA ratios and various parameters

From: Low serum eicosapentaenoic acid / arachidonic acid ratio in male subjects with visceral obesity

	Serum EPA/AA ratio			Serum DHA/AA ratio		Serum (EPA+DHA)/AA ratio
	Univariate		Multivariate	Univariate		Univariate
	r	p value	p value	r	p value	r	p value
Age	0.242	0.005	0.003	0.296	0.001	0.295	<0.001
BMI	−0.162	0.061		−0.127	0.144	−0.154	0.076
WC	−0.176	0.042	-	−0.117	0.179	−0.153	0.077
Log-eVFA	−0.212	0.015	0.026	−0.097	0.269	−0.157	0.071
Brinkman index	−0.081	0.696		−0.081	0.359	−0.066	0.453
SBP	0.079	0.679		0.135	0.120	0.100	0.251
DBP	−0.076	0.631		0.056	0.521	0.015	0.867
FBG	−0.009	0.919		−0.016	0.856	−0.016	0.851
HbA1c	−0.010	0.915		−0.015	0.863	−0.013	0.879
HOMA-IR	−0.064	0.543		−0.032	0.763	−0.047	0.654
eGFR	0.045	0.614		−0.079	0.373	−0.029	0.740
UACR	0.043	0.674		0.035	0.729	0.041	0.684
LDL-C	0.063	0.481		0.058	0.514	0.065	0.463
HDL-C	0.098	0.264		0.45	0.611	0.072	0.409
Log-TG	−0.154	0.076		0.074	0.396	−0.026	0.767

Data are mean ± SEM (range), or number of subjects. Abbreviations as in Table 1. Parameters with p<0.05 in univariate analysis were subsequently entered into stepwise regression analysis as significant and independent variables. EPA/AA (adopted parameters; age, eVFA).

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