Shivappa, Nitin
Hébert, James R.
Rosato, Valentina
Serraino, Diego
La Vecchia, Carlo
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R44DK103377, R44DK103377)
Article History
Received: 15 February 2016
Accepted: 22 June 2016
First Online: 5 July 2016
Compliance with ethical standards was in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
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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.