Nikpour, Abbas
Pourmontaseri, Hossein
Sepehrinia, Matin
Vahid, Farhad
Farjam, Mojtaba
Hébert, James R.
Homayounfar, Reza
Dehghan, Azizallah
Article History
Received: 16 February 2025
Revised: 4 January 2026
Accepted: 30 January 2026
First Online: 26 February 2026
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors except JRH disclose no conflict of interest. JRH discloses that he 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 to develop computer and smartphone applications for patient counseling and dietary intervention in clinical settings. CHI owns the exclusive right to the E-DII™.
: All steps of this cohort study followed the Helsinki Declaration and were confirmed by the Ethics Committee of Fasa University of Medical Sciences (IR.FUMS.REC.1402.108). All participants of FACS provided written informed consent and were aware of the study’s aim.