Table 5 Spearman’s rank correlations between fish intake (grams/week), meat intake (grams/week), and serum concentrations of ARA (arachidonic acid) (mg/mL), EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) (mg/mL), and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) (mg/mL) in all three trimesters

Fish intake grams/week

1^st trimester

0.09

0.73

0.50*

0.04

0.46

0.07

0.16

0.53

0.78*

<0.001

0.69*

0.002

2^nd trimester

0.42

0.10

0.33

0.20

0.56*

0.02

-0.12

0.64

0.07

0.79

0.06

0.82

3^rd trimester

0.02

0.94

0.00

0.99

0.15

0.58

0.08

0.75

0.45

0.06

0.22

0.39

Meat intake grams/week

1^st trimester

0.26

0.31

-0.06

0.82

0.11

0.66

0.37

0.13

-0.08

0.76

0.37

0.14

2^nd trimester

0.02

0.95

-0.59*

0.02

-0.28

0.31

0.19

0.46

0.06

0.82

0.21

0.40

3^rd trimester

0.04

0.88

-0.04

0.89

-0.02

0.95

-0.03

0.91

0.19

0.45

0.23

0.36