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Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan
AIMS: We assessed the effect of fasting during Ramadan on blood pressure (BP), body weight, plasma lipid, and lipoprotein variables among healthy normal individuals. METHODS: 102 (68% male) multi-ethnic volunteers; mean age ± SD (38.7±10.5 years) were randomly recruited in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirat...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480413/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047615 |
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author | Shehab, Abdullah Abdulle, Abdishakur El Issa, Awad Al Suwaidi, Jassim Nagelkerke, Nico |
author_facet | Shehab, Abdullah Abdulle, Abdishakur El Issa, Awad Al Suwaidi, Jassim Nagelkerke, Nico |
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description | AIMS: We assessed the effect of fasting during Ramadan on blood pressure (BP), body weight, plasma lipid, and lipoprotein variables among healthy normal individuals. METHODS: 102 (68% male) multi-ethnic volunteers; mean age ± SD (38.7±10.5 years) were randomly recruited in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to be investigated before Ramadan, one day after the end of Ramadan, and four weeks after Ramadan. Anthropometric, demographic, fasting plasma total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), and high density lipoprotein–cholesterol (HDL-C) were measured by standard methods, and Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) was calculated using Friedewald’s formula. RESULTS: 65 subjects completed the study. We found significant and beneficial changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP), body weight, waist circumference (WC), TG, HDL-C and LDL-C, at the end of Ramadan, but not in TC. Further, there was a progressive and significant increase and decrease in HDL-C and LDL-C levels, respectively, four weeks after Ramadan. CONCLUSIONS: We observed significant improvements in HDL-C, and LDL-C levels even after four weeks post Ramadan. Ramadan-like fasting may be considered for more effective lipid and lipoprotein control. |
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spelling | pubmed-34804132012-10-30 Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan Shehab, Abdullah Abdulle, Abdishakur El Issa, Awad Al Suwaidi, Jassim Nagelkerke, Nico PLoS One Research Article AIMS: We assessed the effect of fasting during Ramadan on blood pressure (BP), body weight, plasma lipid, and lipoprotein variables among healthy normal individuals. METHODS: 102 (68% male) multi-ethnic volunteers; mean age ± SD (38.7±10.5 years) were randomly recruited in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to be investigated before Ramadan, one day after the end of Ramadan, and four weeks after Ramadan. Anthropometric, demographic, fasting plasma total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), and high density lipoprotein–cholesterol (HDL-C) were measured by standard methods, and Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) was calculated using Friedewald’s formula. RESULTS: 65 subjects completed the study. We found significant and beneficial changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP), body weight, waist circumference (WC), TG, HDL-C and LDL-C, at the end of Ramadan, but not in TC. Further, there was a progressive and significant increase and decrease in HDL-C and LDL-C levels, respectively, four weeks after Ramadan. CONCLUSIONS: We observed significant improvements in HDL-C, and LDL-C levels even after four weeks post Ramadan. Ramadan-like fasting may be considered for more effective lipid and lipoprotein control. Public Library of Science 2012-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3480413/ /pubmed/23112824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047615 Text en © 2012 Shehab et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Shehab, Abdullah Abdulle, Abdishakur El Issa, Awad Al Suwaidi, Jassim Nagelkerke, Nico Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan |
title | Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan |
title_full | Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan |
title_fullStr | Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan |
title_full_unstemmed | Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan |
title_short | Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan |
title_sort | favorable changes in lipid profile: the effects of fasting after ramadan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480413/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047615 |
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