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Implementing national produce prescription programs for US adults with diabetes and food insecurity prevents cardiovascular disease events and generates quality-adjusted life years while being highly cost-effective.
For policymakers and healthcare systems, integrating produce prescriptions into care for diabetic, food-insecure patients is a financially sound investment that improves long-term health outcomes and reduces overall societal costs.
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Our model suggests that implementing produce prescriptions among US adults with diabetes and food insecurity would generate substantial health gains and be highly cost effective.
Why this rating
The study is a microsimulation model based on meta-analyses and national survey data, not a primary RCT.
Source
Health and Economic Impacts of Implementing Produce Prescription Programs for Diabetes in the United States: A Microsimulation Study
Lu Wang et al. · Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023
DOI 10.1161/jaha.122.029215
microsimulation · n=6500000Cited 47×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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