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Fig. 2 | Lipids in Health and Disease

Fig. 2

From: Saturated fat in an evolutionary context

Fig. 2

Primary sources of saturated fat in the human organism. SFA = saturated fatty acid. Short-chain: ≤6 carbon. Medium-chain: >6, ≤ 12 carbon. Long-chain: >12 carbon. Information on chain-lengths is from published works on endogenous generation in different tissues [74,75,76,77]

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Lipids in Health and Disease

ISSN: 1476-511X