Ahmed, Mavra
Oh, Angela
Vanderlee, Lana
Franco-Arellano, Beatriz
Schermel, Alyssa
Lou, Wendy
L’Abbé, Mary R. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7688-7558
Funding for this research was provided by:
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Article History
Received: 19 August 2019
Accepted: 3 February 2020
First Online: 12 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with 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. The study was approved by the University of Toronto Ethics Committee.
: Not applicable.
: Mavra Ahmed was a Government of Canada Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow from September 2017 – September 2019 and was jointly funded by Mitacs and Nestlé Research Center. However, neither of the organizations were involved in any way with respect to the research presented within this manuscript. Prior coming to the University of Toronto, Beatriz Franco-Arellano was a PepsiCo Mexico Foods employee; however, the company had no connection or funding in any way to this research. Remaining authors declare no conflicts of interest.