Chen, Lingzhi
Ming, Jingjing
Chen, Tianyi
Hébert, James R.
Sun, Peng
Zhang, Li
Wang, Hongya
Wu, Qingkuo
Zhang, Cancan
Shivappa, Nitin
Ban, Bo
Article History
Received: 25 September 2021
Accepted: 15 June 2022
First Online: 9 July 2022
Declarations
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: There are no other conflicts of interest to declare.
: J.R.H. 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. N.S. 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.
: Not applicable, as this was based on an analysis of existing observational data from the NHANES.
: Ethical committee approval for the collection of NHANES data was obtained from the NCHS Research Ethics Review Board in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and participants provided written informed consent. Subsequent analyses of de-identified data are permitted by federal regulations on human subjects research and exempt from further IRB review under 45 CFR 46.101(b)(4).