Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism

Research Article

Relationship between Fecal Content of Fatty Acids and Cyclooxygenase mRNA Expression and Fatty Acid Composition in Duodenal Biopsies, Serum Lipoproteins, and Dietary Fat in Colectomized Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Patients

Table 2

Spearman correlation coefficients () between fatty acid composition of feces and dietary fatty acids in colectomized familial adenomatous polyposis patients operated with ileal-pouch-anal anastomosis


Fecal fatty acids
Dietary fatty acids	Palmitic acid	Palmitoleic acid	Oleic acid	EPA	DHA	Sum MUFAs

Oleic acid	0.5()	0.6()	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.5()
Linoleic acid	0.5	0.5()	0.5()	0.3	0.3	0.5()
Arachidonic acid	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.6()	0.5()	0.5
Sum MUFAs	0.5()	0.6()	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.5()

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
No significant coefficients of correlation were seen for the ileostomy group.
The values for eicosenoic acid and eicosadienoic acid are not shown, since these values were close to zero.
DHA: docosahexaenoic acid; EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid; MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acids.