Essential fatty acid status in Southern Thai preschool children.
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Essential fatty acid status in southern Thai preschool children.
Essential fatty acid (EFA) status was assessed in 15 Southern Thai preschool children. The mean (+/- SD) serum linoleate (18:2 n-6), arachidonate (20:4 n-6), linolenate (18:3 n-3), eicosapentaenoate (20:5 n-3), and docosahexaenoate (22:6 n-3) percentages in the preschool children were 21.7 +/- 4.0, 6.0 +/- 1.2, 0.4 +/- 0.1, 1.2 +/- 0.8, and 4.4 +/- 1.3, respectively. Since EFA composition of to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0301-4800,1881-7742
DOI: 10.3177/jnsv.33.275