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History
- Published online March 14, 2017.
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Author Information
- Khursheed Jeejeebhoy, MBBS, PhD,
- Rupinder Dhaliwal, RD,
- Daren K. Heyland, MD,
- Roger Leung, MSc,
- Andrew G. Day, MSc,
- Paula Brauer, PhD, RD,
- Dawna Royall, MSc, RD,
- Angelo Tremblay, MSc, PhD,
- David M. Mutch, PhD,
- Lew Pliamm, MD,
- Caroline Rhéaume, MD, PhD,
- Doug Klein, MD, MSc
- Competing interests: Metabolic Syndrome Canada is a not-for-profit charitable organization that funded the current study. Daren Heyland received grant funds from Metabolic Syndrome Canada for program development, study coordination and data analyses. Rupinder Dhaliwal, Andrew Day and Roger Leung were paid for their work on the study by Kingston General Hospital and Queen's University from this grant. Rupinder Dhaliwal became an employee of Metabolic Syndrome Canada after the completion of study enrolment. Lew Pliamm, Caroline Rhéuame and Doug Klein received grants as participating sites for patient enrolment and data collection from Metabolic Syndrome Canada. Paula Brauer, Dawna Royall, David Mutch and Angelo Tremblay received grants for program development from Metabolic Syndrome Canada. Khursheed Jeejeebhoy is on the board of directors for Metabolic Syndrome Canada and will be involved in discussions about fundraising for this nonprofit organization.
- Affiliations: Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Physiology (Jeejeebhoy), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Jeejeebhoy), Toronto, Ont.; Metabolic Syndrome Canada (Dhaliwal); Department of Critical Care Medicine (Heyland), School of Medicine, Queen's University; Clinical Evaluation Research Unit (Heyland, Leung, Day), Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ont.; Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition (Brauer, Royall), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont.; Division of Kinesiology (Tremblay), Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Que.; Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences (Mutch), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont.; Polyclinic Family and Specialty Medicine (Pliamm), Toronto, Ont.; Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (Rhéaume); Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine (Rhéaume), Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Que.; Department of Family Medicine (Klein), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.
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Correspondence to:
Rupinder Dhaliwal, rupinder.dhaliwal{at}metsc.ca