ReviewCirculation2023
Food Is Medicine: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association.
Review in Circulation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 168 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dietary, Food Security and Diabetes Outcomes Associated with Food Is Medicine Programs among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in the United States: A Rapid Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
- Direct Digital Referrals From Prenatal Care and WIC Enrollment Among Pregnant Individuals: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Designing Medically Tailored Meal Interventions: The Food as Medicine for Families (FAME-F) Factorial Randomized Clinical Trial.Circulation. Population health and outcomes · 2026Trial
- Feasibility of an Adaptive Food Insecurity Intervention for Patients with Uncontrolled Hypertension: A Pilot SMART.Population health management · 2026Trial
- Feasibility of an Indigenous Food Is Medicine Program for Patients With Heart Failure in Rural Navajo Nation: The MUTTON-HF Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
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- Does the provision of free medically tailored groceries high in fibre or healthy fats impact sodium and potassium intakes? Secondary data analysis of a randomised controlled trial with extended follow-up.European journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
- Food Insecurity Interventions to Improve Blood Pressure: The Healthy Food First Factorial Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2025Trial
- Examining the Impact of a Codeveloped Multicomponent Mobile eHealth Lifestyle Intervention on Physical Activity and Its Association With Gestational Weight Gain in Underserved Women: A Statewide Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- "This Program has Given Me the Proper Nutrition that I Deserve": Participant Perspective on a Medically Tailored Meal Intervention.Journal of primary care & community healthTrial
- What Should Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration Eat?American journal of ophthalmology · 2026Review
- An Indigenous Food Is Medicine Intervention: The MUTTON-HF Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2026Article
- Sustainable diets and functional foods for the prevention of cardio-metabolic diseases and sustainable development goals of the UNO. An international consensus of scientific statement of the international college of nutrition and 28th world congress on clinical nutrition, Bogor, Indonesia.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Review
- Protocol for the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial to reduce food insecurity and improve adherence in patients with hypertension (SMART-FI).Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Opportunities for Individual- and Population-Specific Adaptations in Food Is Medicine: A Scoping Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Clinical Care and Referral Pathways for Food Security Screening in Health Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Article
- Comparing Care Coordination and Food Assistance Referrals to Improve Diabetes Outcomes: A Cohort Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Edible Fungus Compound Cordycepin Protects Against Acetaminophen-Induced Liver Injury.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Produce Prescription Program Enrollment and Benefit Use among Patients with Diabetes and at Risk for Food Insecurity.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Observational
- Highlights of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Studies Presented at the 2026 American College of Cardiology Conference.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2026Review
42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
16 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Unhealthy diets are a major impediment to achieving a healthier population in the United States. Although there is a relatively clear sense of what constitutes a healthy diet, most of the US population does not eat healthy food at rates consistent with the recommended clinical guidelines. An abundance of barriers, including food and nutrition insecurity, how food is marketed and advertised, access to and affordability of healthy foods, and behavioral challenges such as a focus on immediate versus delayed gratification, stand in the way of healthier dietary patterns for many Americans. Food Is Medicine may be defined as the provision of healthy food resources to prevent, manage, or treat specific clinical conditions in coordination with the health care sector. Although the field has promise, relatively few studies have been conducted with designs that provide strong evidence of associations between Food Is Medicine interventions and health outcomes or health costs. Much work needs to be done to create a stronger body of evidence that convincingly demonstrates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different types of Food Is Medicine interventions. An estimated 90% of the $4.3 trillion annual cost of health care in the United States is spent on medical care for chronic disease. For many of these diseases, diet is a major risk factor, so even modest improvements in diet could have a significant impact. This presidential advisory offers an overview of the state of the field of Food Is Medicine and a road map for a new research initiative that strategically approaches the outstanding questions in the field while prioritizing a human-centered design approach to achieve high rates of patient engagement and sustained behavior change. This will ideally happen in the context of broader efforts to use a health equity-centered approach to enhance the ways in which our food system and related policies support improvements in health.
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