Maternal intake of seafood and supplementary long chain n-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids and preterm delivery

Table 1 Calculated intake seafood and LCn-3PUFA from food and % contribution from subcategories in n = 67,007 women in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study 2002–2008

	Median, g/d	Mean, g/d	% of total seafood	LCn-3PUFA, median g/d	LCn-3PUFA, mean g/d	% of LCn-3PUFA
Total seafood	33.4	36.4		0.248	0.365	92
Lean fish	18.5	20.3	56	0.039	0.044	11
Fatty fish	8.3	12.2	34	0.188	0.298	75
Shellfish	2.4	3.6	10	0	0.009	2.2
Fish liver	0	0.3	0.7	0	0.014	3.7
Eggs^a	7.8	11.4		0.014	0.019	4.8
Other food (poultry)^a	18.8	22.4		0.010	0.012	3.0

^aEggs and other food contain LCn-3PUFA (eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acid) coming from marine feed ingredients

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