Voucher for Healthy Foods and Diabetes Control

For patients with type 2 diabetes experiencing food insecurity, does a monthly grocery store voucher improve glycemic control?In this randomized clinical trial of 390 adults, a monthly voucher that allowed access to healthy foods did not improve diabetes control but did increase self-reported vegetable and fruit consumption.Because monthly food vouchers were insufficient to improve diabetic control for people with food insecurity in this trial, further experimental data are needed to determine the health effects of interventions that improve food access.

Corresponding Author: Nav Persaud, MD, MSc, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, 80 Bond St, Toronto, ON M5B 1X2, Canada (nav.persaud@utoronto.ca).

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