Clinical outcomes of fasting in patients with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: A prospective analysis

Fasting is a part of many world religions and in Islam fasting is obligatory for every adult Muslim during the month of Ramadan. Islam has exempted sick people from fasting; however, many people still partake in this activity. We investigated how Islamic fasting affects patients with heart failure w...

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Autores principales: Alam, Shafiq, Hussain, Shoukat, Abbas, Jawad, Raza, Muhammad Hassan, Rasool, Waqar Arif, K. Alsubai, Abdulla, Al-Mousawi, Razan, Aldhaheri, Khaled Saeed Obaid, Malik, Jahanzeb, Almas, Talal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9418796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36039141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104373
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Sumario:Fasting is a part of many world religions and in Islam fasting is obligatory for every adult Muslim during the month of Ramadan. Islam has exempted sick people from fasting; however, many people still partake in this activity. We investigated how Islamic fasting affects patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). We enrolled 938 patients (fasting n = 456; non-fasting = 482) in this prospective observational study. The fasting group showed a decrease in NYHA functional class III (23.36% vs. 17.77%; p-value < 0.05) and IV (3.76% vs. 2.19%; p-value < 0.05), and an increase in class I(35.57% vs. 43.64%; p-value < 0.05). symptoms. This is an important area for physicians to advise patients with HFpEF to fast in the month of Ramadan as it can have a favorable effect on their symptoms and quality of life.

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