Tom Gaziano Interviewed by WBUR

CHDS faculty Thomas Gaziano, MD, MSc was interviewed by Boston’s WBUR to discuss the impact of an ideal diet on cardiovascular disease health care costs. As senior author of a diet study published in PLoS Medicine and in collaboration with Tufts researchers, the publication “Cardiometabolic disease costs associated with suboptimal diet in the United States: A cost analysis based on a microsimulation model” found that unhealthy eating costs the American health care system at least $50 billion per year.

Gaziano discussed barriers to consuming a healthy diet in America – including culture, cost and availability – as well as potential policy solutions to optimizing diet (such as financial incentives), which could reduce health care costs in the United States.

Learn more: Read the WBUR Interview
Learn more: Read the PLoS Medicine Article
Learn more: Read about the Cardiovascular Disease Model in Models and Tools