Fig. 2: Scattered dot plots of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane fatty acid data and indexes obtained from the subjects of the study. | npj Breast Cancer

Fig. 2: Scattered dot plots of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane fatty acid data and indexes obtained from the subjects of the study.

From: Use of membrane lipidome, body weight, and composition in stratification of early breast cancer patients

Fig. 2: Scattered dot plots of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane fatty acid data and indexes obtained from the subjects of the study.

Graphs show the results of the three groups of early-stage breast cancer (BC) patients (n = 50) divided by BMI: normal weight, NW (BMI = 18.5–24.9) n = 26; overweight, OW (BMI = 25–29.9) n = 11; obese, OB (BMI = 30–39.9) n = 13, in comparison with healthy controls (HEALTHY, n = 41). The controls comprise healthy NW women aged 22–54 recruited among the Hospital’s employees (CTRL H, n = 15) and age-matched healthy NW women (CTRL DB, n = 26) taken from an anonymous Italian lipidomic analysis database. In the plots, the gray areas correspond to the interval values reported for the healthy RBC membrane fatty acids benchmark12,35. Significances (unpaired t-test): *p ≤ 0.04; **p ≤ 0.0093; ***p = 0.0002; p ≤ 0.0001. Significant changes are detailed in Table 2.

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