Table 1.
Patient characteristics and ART outcome (n = 74).
Fig 1.
Distribution of lipid fractions in serum and follicular fluid.
NEFA: non-esterified fatty acids; TG: triglycerides; PL: phospholipids; CHE: cholesterol esters.
Table 2.
Mean or median (for normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively) percentages of specific fatty acids (% by weight) in serum and follicular fluid (FF), as well as variation among patients in fatty acid proportions within each matrix, followed by a correlation analysis between serum and FF (Rpearson or Rspearman for normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively) (n = 74).
Fig 2.
Relationships between blood serum and follicular fluid (FF) of the percentages of a selected number of saturated, mono-unsaturated, n-6 and n-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids (% by weight) within each lipid class (non-esterified fatty acids, NEFA; triglycerides, TG; phospholipids, PL and cholesterol esters, CHE).
Rpearson or Rspearman are mentioned for normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively, and all presented correlations are significant (P < 0.05).
Table 3.
Mean or median (for normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively) percentages of specific fatty acids (M, % by weight) in serum and follicular fluid (FF), as well as variation (Var) among patients in fatty acid proportions in 4 lipid fractions (non-esterified fatty acids, NEFA; triglycerides, TG; phospholipids, PL and cholesterol esters, CHE) in serum and follicular fluid (FF), followed by correlation analysis between serum and FF within each lipid class (R refers to Rpearson or Rspearman for normally and non-normally distributed data, respectively).
P refers to the P-value of the paired T-test or the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test comparing FA proportions of normally or non-normally distributed FA in serum and FF within each lipid class.
Fig 3.
Scatter plot of PCA including the proportions of all identified fatty acids in the non-fractionated extract and 4 lipid fractions of serum and follicular fluid.
NFE: non-fractionated extract; NEFA: non-esterified fatty acids; TG: triglycerides; PL: phospholipids; CHE: cholesterol esters.