About the Authors
- Karin Yurko-Mauro
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* E-mail: karin.yurko-mauro@dsm.com
Affiliation Clinical Research, Nutritional Lipids, DSM Nutritional Products, Columbia, Maryland, United States of America
- Dominik D. Alexander
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Affiliation Epidemiology, EpidStat Institute, Evergreen, Colorado, United States of America
- Mary E. Van Elswyk
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Affiliation Scientific Affairs, Van Elswyk Consulting, Inc., Longmont, Colorado, United States of America
Competing Interests
KYM is currently employed by DSM Nutritional Products. DSM Nutritional Products produces and sells nutritional oils rich omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, vitamins and other nutritional ingredients. Dr. Yurko-Mauro provided interpretation of data, critical revision, and final approval of the manuscript. MVE is an employee of Van Elswyk Consulting Inc. and receives compensation from DSM Nutritional Products and other companies to provide consulting services. Service for this manuscript included literature screening, data extraction, critical revision, editing, and final approval of the manuscript. DA is an employee of EpidStat Institute and a former employee of Exponent, Inc. and received compensation from DSM Nutritional Products for statistical analysis of data, interpretation of data, editing, and final approval of the current manuscript.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KYM DA MVE. Performed the experiments: MVE. Analyzed the data: DA. Wrote the paper: KYM DA MVE.