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WY Wei-Sin Yang
YC Yun-Yu Chen
PC Pei-Chun Chen
HH Hsiu-Ching Hsu
TS Ta-Chen Su
HL Hung-Ju Lin
MC Ming-Fong Chen
YL Yuan-Teh Lee
KC Kuo-Liong Chien
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All participants were categorised into quartiles according to the blood concentrations of the fatty acid profiles and metabolic enzymes. Continuous variables were presented as means ± standard deviations. The difference among the quartiles was assessed using analysis of variance. The chi-square test was used to test the significance among the categorical data.

To compare the different fatty acids in predicting the CVD risk, we used the following strategies: Multivariable Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the HR and their respective 95% CI (see Supplementary Materials for the details of Models 1–3). All analyses were performed using SAS version 9.3 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC) and R version 3.3.0. Two-tailed P-values of <0.05 were considered to indicate statistical significance.

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