Deng, Fang Emily
Shivappa, Nitin
Tang, YiFan
Mann, Joshua R.
Hebert, James R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R44DK103377, R44DK103377)
Article History
Received: 4 September 2015
Accepted: 12 January 2016
First Online: 29 January 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. James R. Hébert owns controlling interest in Connecting Health Innovations LLC (CHI), a company planning to license the right to his invention of the dietary inflammatory index (DII) from the University of South Carolina in order to develop computer and smart phone applications for patient counseling and dietary intervention in clinical settings. Dr. Nitin Shivappa is an employee of CHI. The authors have declared no conflict of interest.