Zia, Faizan Cosic, Luka Wong, Angela Levin, Adam Lu, Patrick Mitchell, Craig Shaw, Michael Rosewarne, Fred Weinberg, Laurence
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundContemporary perioperative fasting guidelines aim to alleviate patient discomfort before surgery and enhance postoperative recovery whilst seeking to reduce the risk of pulmonary aspiration during anesthesia. The impact of a short message service (SMS) reminder on fasting guideline compliance is unknown. Therefore, we performed a retrospe...
Zhang, Cong Wang, Xiaodan Wang, Chunling Song, Ying Pan, Jingyu Shi, Qingchao Qin, Jianguang Chen, Liqiao
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General and comparative endocrinology
The ability of immune defense and resistance to physiological stress is crucial to animal health and survival. This study investigated the regulation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) on metabolic homeostasis and its enhancement of hepatopancreas health in juvenile Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) under food deprivation. Juvenile crabs of 400 i...
Tootee, Ali Esfahani, Ensieh Nasli Larijani, Bagher
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Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Management of fasting patients with diabetes during Ramadan has always posed a great challenge on clinicians. This year, Ramadan has coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic which per se can complicate diabetes care. Although patients with diabetes should be generally discouraged from fasting, those who insist to fact during the current Covid-19 pandem...
Bayani, Ali Asghar Esmaeili, Robabeh Ganji, Ghorbanali
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Journal of religion and health
The main objective of this research was to evaluate the impact of fasting on the psychological well-being of Muslim graduate students. In a single-group pretest posttest research design, students who intended to fast in the month of Ramadan were asked to respond to a psychological well-being scale and its subscales before and after the end of fasti...
Zhang, Gang Huang, Xiaoyan Shui, Yunhua Luo, Chunqiong Zhang, Lan
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Asian journal of surgery
Pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents is one of the most terrible complications following general anesthesia. It is important for patients to prevent this complication by obeying the preoperative fasting protocol strictly. At present, it has been reported by many studies that bedside ultrasound, as a non-invasive and convenient method, could be ...
Riedinger, Courtney J Kimball, Kristopher J Kilgore, Larry C Bell, Clayton W Heidel, Robert E Boone, Jonathan D
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Gynecologic oncology
As a protective response, during starvation organisms withdraw energy from growth and reproduction to focus on cellular maintenance. Cancer cells cannot undergo this differential response which has been theorized as an adjunct to improve both the effect of chemotherapy treatment and reduce treatment side effects. We sought to investigate the feasib...
Sofi, Francesco
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International journal of food sciences and nutrition
Numerous studies have reported beneficial effects for fasting in cellular and animal models, but human studies have shown conflicting results. Recently, a new diet has been introduced both in the scientific literature and in the lay media, the so-called fasting-mimicking diet. It is mainly characterised by a diet period that imitates fasting (gener...
Bouzoni, Eirini Perakakis, Nikolaos Mantzoros, Christos S
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Metabolism: clinical and experimental
Chronic energy deficiency observed in women that exercise strenuously affects reproductive function, often leading to hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA). In such conditions, hypoleptinemia and robust changes in the Activin-Follistatin-Inhibin Axis (AFI) are observed. Treatment with leptin restores menstruation in many (60% responders) but not all (40% no...
Nakajima, Motohiro al’Absi, Mustafa
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European Addiction Research
Background: Fasting changes mood and physiological states. Substance use, such as khat use, is prohibited during fasting during Ramadan, a traditional practice among Muslims. Habitual khat use is associated with increased negative affect and altered psychobiological stress responses. Effects of fasting on stress responses, mood, and withdrawal symp...
Plotti, Francesco Terranova, Corrado Luvero, Daniela Bartolone, Martina Messina, Giuseppe Feole, Laura Cianci, Stefano Scaletta, Giuseppe Marchetti, Claudia Di Donato, Violante
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Chemotherapy
Introduction: Diet may influence various aspects of human health. In fact, it is well known that diet can favour or not the development of various human pathologies, like diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolaemia. Interestingly, diet has an influence in cancer development too (e.g., this relation has been studied for pancreatic, colonic, ga...
