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Table 3 Coefficients from multiple regression analysis between maternal fatty acids intakes with birth weight and birth length

From: Association of maternal omega-6 fatty acid intake with infant birth outcomes: Korean Mothers and Children’s Environmental Health (MOCEH)

	Birth weight(n 1291)						Birth length(n 1201)
	Unadjusted			Adjusted^a			Unadjusted			Adjusted^b
	β	SE	P value	β	SE	P value	β	SE	P value	β	SE	P value
TFAs	−0.009	0.463	0.985	−0.243	0.575	0.673	0.000	0.003	0.981	−0.001	0.004	0.806
SFAs	0.452	1.180	0.702	0.336	1.359	0.805	0.003	0.007	0.711	0.003	0.009	0.719
MUFAs	−0.057	1.059	0.957	−0.478	1.252	0.703	0.001	0.006	0.903	−0.001	0.008	0.951
PUFAs	−1.196	1.774	0.501	−2.847	2.109	0.177	−0.010	0.011	0.340	−0.017	0.014	0.199
Total n-3 FAs	0.965	8.785	0.913	−0.075	8.679	0.993	−0.058	0.052	0.261	−0.061	0.053	0.249
18:3 n-3	−12.306	15.416	0.425	−17.617	15.971	0.270	−0.131	0.092	0.155	−0.152	0.100	0.129
20:5 n-3	43.365	34.607	0.210	31.952	33.022	0.334	0.016	0.206	0.938	0.064	0.206	0.754
22:6 n-3	14.954	14.550	0.304	10.818	13.442	0.421	0.017	0.091	0.850	0.005	0.089	0.957
Total n-6 FAs	−2.946	2.076	0.156	−5.161	2.394	0.031^*	−0.017	0.012	0.158	−0.033	0.015	0.025^*
18:2 n-6	−2.315	1.953	0.236	−4.246	2.266	0.061	−0.011	0.012	0.332	−0.018	0.015	0.209
20:4 n-6	2.887	125.055	0.982	−67.266	121.643	0.580	0.002	0.760	0.998	−0.433	0.782	0.580
n-6/n-3	0.117	2.489	0.963	−0.439	2.437	0.857	0.013	0.015	0.398	0.015	0.015	0.304

TFAs, Total fatty acids; SFAs, saturated fatty acids; MUFAs, mono unsaturated fatty acids; PUFAs, poly unsaturated fatty acids
*P < 0.05
^aadjusted for maternal age, pre-pregnancy BMI, level of education, neonatal gender, maternal urinary cotinine level (ln), gestational age and energy intake
^badjusted for maternal age, pre-pregnancy BMI, level of education, neonatal gender, maternal urinary cotinine level (ln), gestational age, energy and vitamin C intake

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