About the Authors

Heidi Fritz

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

Deborah Kennedy

Affiliations Department of Research and Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dean Fergusson

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rochelle Fernandes

Affiliations Department of Research and Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP), The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kieran Cooley

Affiliations Department of Research and Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Andrew Seely

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Stephen Sagar

Affiliation Juravinski Cancer Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Raimond Wong

Affiliation Juravinski Cancer Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dugald Seely

dseely@ccnm.edu

Affiliations Department of Research and Epidemiology, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS DF KC AS RW SS HF DAK. Performed the experiments: HF RF DAK. Analyzed the data: DS DF HF DAK. Wrote the paper: HF DAK DS.