NCT06540118Completed
Food Is Medicine for Patients With Heart Failure
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will look at the effects of providing medically tailored meals (MTMs) to people with heart disease for twelve weeks. The primary outcome of the study is the quality of the diet being consumed in week 12 of the study, as determined by the "Healthy Eating Index."
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- First submitted
- 24 Jul 2024
- Start date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Primary completion date
- 28 Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT06540118
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 60
- From 17 Oct 2024 to the primary completion date, 28 Jul 2025
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Currently taking insulin and/or meglitinides medications
- Currently taking Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Agonists medications and not stable on a maximum maintenance dose for a minimum of 1 month
Other illness
- Diagnosed with end-stage heart failure
- Diagnosed with diabetes (type 1 or uncontrolled type 2)
- Known severe allergic reactions and/or food intolerances that would interfere with the ability to eat study-provided meals, including foods that are prepared in a facility that works with the allergen
Lab values
- Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) results \>8 %
Other
- Life expectancy of \<1 year
- Pregnancy or lactation
- Current smoker or tobacco use within the past year
- Planning to leave San Diego or the Bay Area during the course of the study
- Unable to communicate reasonably well either orally or through written material in English
- Those who, in the opinion of the investigators, cannot reliably complete the study protocol
Who the study is looking for
- Willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
- Living in San Diego or the Bay Area of California
- Reported congestive heart failure (CHF) diagnosis
- Current diet can be improved
- Willing to eat all meals provided by the study
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Diego Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Jolla | United States | Unknown status |
| Stanford University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stanford | United States | Unknown status |
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