Fig. 1. Effect of nutrition on plasma EA/AA ratio plotted against the age. By day 21, all the infants in P group exhibited pathological plasma EA/AA ratio and the majority of this group showed pathological EA/AA ratio already on day seven. Closed circles represent lipid free total parenteral nutrition, closed triangles represent H infants and open circles mark the L group. The dotted line represents the lower limit of EFAD.

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