Limbachia, Jayneel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7854-8725
Desai, Dipika
Abdalla, Nora
de Souza, Russell J.
Teo, Koon
Morrison, Katherine M.
Punthakee, Zubin
Gupta, Milan
Lear, Scott A.
Anand, Sonia S. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3692-7441
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Canada Research Chairs
CIHR (FRN227861)
CIHR
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Article History
Received: 8 February 2022
Accepted: 27 July 2022
First Online: 29 September 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutions (START study: Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board [ID:10-640], William Osler Health System [ID:11-0001], and Trillium Health Partners [RCC: 11-018, ID: 492], March 3rd, 2011; FAMILY study: Hamilton Health Sciences [02-060], and St. Joseph’s Health Centre [05-2497]; RICH LEGACY study: The Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board [10-659]) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study
: Not applicable
: RJ de Souza has served as an external resource person to the World Health Organization’s Nutrition Guidelines Advisory Group on trans fats, saturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats. WHO paid for his travel and accommodation to attend meetings from the period 2012-2017 to present and discuss this work. He has presented updates of this work to WHO in 2022. He has also done contract research for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes, Health Canada, and WHO for which he received remuneration. He has received speaker’s fees from the University of Toronto, and McMaster Children’s Hospital. He has held grants from CIHR, Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research, Population Health Research Institute, and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation as a principal investigator, and is a co-investigator on several funded team grants from CIHR. He has served as an independent director of the Helderleigh Foundation (Canada). He serves as a member of the Nutrition Science Advisory Committee to Health Canada (Government of Canada), and a co-opted member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) Subgroup on the Framework for the Evaluation of Evidence (Public Health England).