Food as medicine: tailored meals may help heart failure patients eat better
NCT ID NCT06540118
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether providing medically tailored meals to people with heart failure could improve their diet quality. Sixty participants received heart-healthy meals delivered to their homes for 12 weeks. The main goal was to see if their diet scores improved by the end of the study.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- medically tailored meals
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could show that providing healthy meals helps people with heart failure eat better and possibly manage their condition.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study with only 60 participants. It measures diet quality, not heart failure outcomes, so benefits for the disease itself are uncertain.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Stanford University
Stanford, California, 94305, United States
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University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, 92093, United States
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