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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2014

Structural equation modeling for analyzing erythrocyte fatty acids in Framingham.

James V Pottala, Gemechis D Djira, Mark A Espeland, Jun Ye, Martin G Larson, William S Harris

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Red Blood Cell Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Mortality Following Breast Cancer.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024
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  3. Associations of erythrocyte fatty acid patterns with insulin resistance.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

James V PottalaHealth Diagnostic Laboratory Inc., Richmond, VA 23219, USA ; Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, USA.
Gemechis D DjiraDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA.
Mark A EspelandDepartment of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Jun YeDepartment of Statistics, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0465-8259
Martin G LarsonDepartment of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02218, USA ; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA ; Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA.
William S HarrisHealth Diagnostic Laboratory Inc., Richmond, VA 23219, USA ; Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, USA ; OmegaQuant Analytics, Sioux Falls, SD 57107, USA.
University of South Dakota · USBoston University · USSouth Dakota State University · USUniversity of Akron · USWake Forest University · US

Funding

Red Blood Cell Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Cardiovascular Disease RiskR01HL089590 · NHLBI · SANFORD RESEARCH/USD · PI HARRIS, WILLIAM S · 2008 to 2011
$683k
THE FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY-N01HC25195-268025195-268025195N01HC025195 · HC · TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY · PI WOLF, PHILIP A · 2002 to 2006
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NHLBI NIH HHS N01 HC025195NHLBI NIH HHS N01-HC-25195NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL089590NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL089590
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research has shown that several types of erythrocyte fatty acids (i.e., omega-3, omega-6, and trans) are associated with risk for cardiovascular diseases. However, there are complex metabolic and dietary relations among fatty acids, which induce correlations that are typically ignored when using them as risk predictors. A latent variable approach could summarize these complex relations into a few latent variable scores for use in statistical models. Twenty-two red blood cell (RBC) fatty acids were measured in Framingham (N = 3196). The correlation matrix of the fatty acids was modeled using structural equation modeling; the model was tested for goodness-of-fit and gender invariance. Thirteen fatty acids were summarized by three latent variables, and gender invariance was rejected so separate models were developed for men and women. A score was developed for the polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) latent variable, which explained about 30% of the variance in the data. The PUFA score included loadings in opposing directions among three omega-3 and three omega-6 fatty acids, and incorporated the biosynthetic and dietary relations among them. Whether the PUFA factor score can improve the performance of risk prediction in cardiovascular diseases remains to be tested.

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AgedAlgorithmsCardiovascular DiseasesComputational BiologyData Interpretation, StatisticalErythrocytesFactor Analysis, StatisticalFatty AcidsFatty Acids, UnsaturatedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedModels, StatisticalMultivariate AnalysisRisk FactorsFatty AcidsFatty Acids, Unsaturated

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PMID24959197
PMCPMC4052884
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