Millar, Seán R. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4453-8446
Navarro, Pilar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6293-2570
Harrington, Janas M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6238-7031
Shivappa, Nitin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0441-8896
Hébert, James R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0677-2672
Perry, Ivan J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4965-9792
Phillips, Catherine M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4916-4463
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Research Board (HRC/2007/13)
Breakthrough Cancer Research (BCR-2018-07 PH-UCC)
University College Dublin
Article History
Received: 30 September 2021
Accepted: 12 April 2022
First Online: 5 May 2022
Declarations
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: We wish to disclose that 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 to develop computer and smart phone applications for patient counselling and dietary intervention in clinical settings. Dr. Nitin Shivappa is an employee of CHI. The subject matter of this paper will not have any direct bearing on that work, nor has that activity exerted any influence on this project.
: Ethics committee approval conforming to the Declaration of Helsinki was obtained from the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of University College Cork. A letter signed by the contact GP in the clinic was sent out to all selected participants with a reply slip indicating acceptance or refusal. All participants gave signed informed consent, including permission to use their data for research purposes.