Costa, Lorena M.
Mendes, Marcela M.
Oliveira, Amanda C.
Magalhães, Kelly G.
Shivappa, Nitin
Hebert, James R.
da Costa, Teresa H. M.
Botelho, Patrícia B. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-3757
Funding for this research was provided by:
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Article History
Received: 31 January 2021
Accepted: 23 July 2021
First Online: 5 August 2021
Declarations
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: Dr. James R. Hébert owns controlling interest in Connecting Health Innovations LLC (CHI), a company that has licensed 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 other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Goiás with approval number of 2.281.977.
: Eligible volunteers who agreed to participate in the study signed a free and informed consent form. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.