Panagos, P G
Vishwanathan, R
Penfield-Cyr, A
Matthan, N R
Shivappa, N
Wirth, M D
Hebert, J R
Sen, S
Article History
Received: 17 July 2015
Revised: 4 November 2015
Accepted: 10 November 2015
First Online: 7 January 2016
Competing interests
: 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 to develop computer and smart phone applications for patient counseling and dietary intervention in clinical settings. MDW and NS are employees 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 remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.