Table 1.
Sociodemographic, anthropometric, and lifestyle characteristics of the children.
Table 2.
Fatty acid composition of children’s whole blood samples.
Table 3.
Cardiometabolic risk markers in the children.
Figure 1.
Whole blood eicosapentaenoic acid is sex-specifically associated with diastolic blood pressure whereas docosahexaenoic acid is negatively associated with HOMA-IR in all children.
Regression lines and 95% CI are shown for the associations between eicosapentaenoic acid and diastolic blood pressure in boys, β = 2.9, P = 0.02, n = 366 (A) and girls, β = −1.6, P = 0.28, n = 340 (B) and for the association between docosahexaenoic acid and HOMA-IR in the total study population, β = −0.03, P = 0.002, n = 713 (C). Plots were adjusted for school, class, parental education, age, height, puberty, and total fatty acids in whole blood. Blood pressure plots were additionally adjusted for ambient temperature and blood pressure device.
Table 4.
Associations between whole blood n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and cardiometabolic risk markers in the children.