Kidney Health: Eat Well, Live Well

Inclusion criteria

• Adult (18 years of age or older)
• Primary care visit at either one of the three partner clinics from Harris Health \[Smith Clinic, Harris Health Outpatient Center (located on the LBJ campus), or Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center (MLK)\] and a primary care patient within Harris Health System
• Have had at least 1 visit in the past 18 months with prior history in the clinic (i.e., not first visit)
• Diagnosis of CKD (Stage 2, 3a, and 3b) as defined by estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) ≥ 30 and \<90 mL/min/1.73 m2 OR CDK 1 or undiagnosed with urine Albumin Creatinine Ratio ≥ 30 mg/g
• Within the past 12 months, the most current serum K+ ≤ 4.6 mEq/L
• English or Spanish speaking
• Ability to participate in the program at least 6 months
• Ability to clean, prepare, refrigerate/freeze food products that are given to them
• Have access to receive SMS text messages
• Location of preferred produce bag delivery within an available delivery zone

Exclusion criteria

• CKD 4, ESRD or on dialysis.
• Taking certain medications chronically (more than twice a week for 90 days) that may interfere with K+ metabolism (such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), as self-reported during enrollment screening
• Taking mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists
• Taking Warfarin
• Diagnosis of any specific kidney conditions (such as polycystic kidney disease, glomerulonephritis, Lupus associated with Nephritis, Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV)) that would contraindicate study participation as determined by physician
• Medical history of organ transplant that would contraindicate study participation as determined by physician
• Received immunotherapy for primary or secondary kidney disease within 6 months prior to enrolment
• Diagnostic of heart failure conditions Class IV in the New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification
• Had myocardial infarction, unstable angina, stroke, or transient ischemic attack (TIA) within 12 weeks prior to enrolment
• Had coronary revascularization (PCI, CABG) or valvular repair within 12 weeks prior to enrolment
• On active hospice care as self-reported during enrollment screening
• Diagnosis of active malignancy requiring treatment that would contraindicate study participation as determined by physician
• Has decompensated cirrhosis as determined by physician
• Cognitive impairment that would contraindicate study participation as self-reported during enrollment screening