Andrade, Patrícia Amaro
Hermsdorff, Helen Hermana M.
Leite, Jacqueline Isaura Alvarez
Shivappa, Nitin
Hébert, James R.
Henriques, Hirla Karen Fialho
de Oliveira Barbosa Rosa, Carla
Article History
First Online: 5 October 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: JRH 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. NS 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.
: The authors declared no conflict of interest. However, we do wish to disclose that 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.