Article History
Received: 21 September 2019
Revised: 3 March 2020
Accepted: 4 March 2020
First Online: 19 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JRH 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<sup>®</sup>) 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. This study received no external sponsorship from industry. In addition, the subject matter of this paper will not have any direct bearing on the work of CHI, nor has any CHI activity exerted any influence on this project. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.