Masaad, Alyaa A.
Yusuf, Ayesha M.
Shakir, Ayman Z.
Khan, Maryam S.
Khaleel, Sharfa
Cheikh Ismail, Leila
Faris, Mo’ez Al-Islam E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-2616
Jahrami, Haitham A.
Shivappa, Nitin
Hebert, James R.
Bahammam, Ahmed S.
Article History
Received: 9 July 2020
Revised: 7 August 2020
Accepted: 10 August 2020
First Online: 22 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Dr. James R. Hébert owns a 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 smartphone applications for patient counseling and dietary intervention in clinical settings. Dr. Nitin Shivappa is an employee of CHI.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were following the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Written informed consent was signed by each of the study participants before conducting the study.
: Not applicable