About the Authors

Kieran Cooley

kcooley@ccnm.edu

Affiliations Department of Research and Clinical Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Canada, Department of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Orest Szczurko

Affiliations Department of Research and Clinical Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Canada, Department of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Dan Perri

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Edward J. Mills

Affiliations Department of Research and Clinical Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Bob Bernhardt

Affiliation Department of Research and Clinical Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Canada

Qi Zhou

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Dugald Seely

Affiliation Department of Research and Clinical Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KC OS DP EJM DS. Performed the experiments: KC OS DP. Analyzed the data: KC OS EJM QZ DS. Wrote the paper: KC OS DP EJM BB QZ DS.