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Fatty Acids, Omega-6

"Fatty Acids, Omega-6" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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FATTY ACIDS which have the first unsaturated bond in the sixth position from the omega carbon. A typical American diet tends to contain substantially more omega-6 than OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS.


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Bar chart showing 6 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 2007 and 2011 and 2014 and 2015 and 2016 and 2018
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