Physicians’ attitudes and views regarding religious fasting during pregnancy and review of the literature

Adler-Lazarovits, Chana; Weintraub, Adi Y.

doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.12.015

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“…This issue lacks high-quality evidence, which makes giving medical advice challenging. To aid decision-making on this subject, Adler-Lazarovits and Weintraub [44] performed an internet-mediated survey to determine the expert opinion on this issue. They examined the physicians' attitudes and views regarding religious fasting during pregnancy.…”

Section: Antenatal Care During Ramadanmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Year in “Ramadan Fasting and Health” (2018): A Narrative Review

Beshyah

Badi²,

Elghul

et al. 2019

Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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Invited Review introduCtionRamadan fasting (RF) is practiced by adult Muslims during the 9 th lunar month every year. It entails that they abstain from eating and drinking between dawn and sunset. Medical and religious scholars got closer in their approach to advice given to patients based on objective risk assessment. [1] Muslim patients with acute or chronic medical conditions may be exempted from fasting; many do still choose to observe the fast sometimes against medical advice. This may adversely affect their health if not addressed properly by evidence-based recommendations. [2] There has been a tremendous recent interest in the health implications of RF. Keeping up with developments in this area may prove difficult, and hence, a narrative overview under a single cover may be particularly useful in presenting a digest of the research and expert opinion in the year. [3] Our previous review of the literature published in 2017 was the most viewed Introduction: There has been an increased interest in health implications of Ramadan fasting (RF). Materials and Methods: This is a narrative, nonsystematic review of the literature including all relevant full articles in English in three electronic databases (Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar). The search term "Ramadan fasting" was used to identify the relevant records to provide a readily comprehensible concise account of the contributions made to research and clinical practice in 1 year (2018). Results: The publications spanned basic, clinical, ethical, professional, and cultural and advocacy facets of the subject. The publications crossed the conventional disciplinary lines and geographical locations and appeared in journals with varying systems of access. Only full-text research articles in English were reviewed. Review articles, news, note items, and correspondence were not included. No formal bibliometric analysis is presented. Emerging concepts are presented under the relevant subheading depending on the available literature. Impact of RF on diabetes control, pregnancy outcome and fetal life, and sports and athletes' well-being received somewhat more prominent coverage by research work published in 2018. Renovascular disease, and risk factors, posttransplant care, and some metabolic concerns for patients with hepatic, renal, and metabolic conditions were covered too. Patterns of use of emergency services during Ramadan and features of some specific medical emergencies were examined by some workers. Most interesting perhaps was the greater focus on documenting the perception, attitudes, and practices of both patients and healthcare professions regarding deciding and acting during Ramadan. Isolated research reports addressed subjects of wide nature from body composition and energy metabolism to smoking, law, music, and history. Conclusions: The volume of scholarly work on Ramadan fasting and health remains modest. Greater improvements in both quality and quantity of research on Ramadan are needed. Most studies indicate that Ramadan fasting is safe in mild and st...

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Section: Antenatal Care During Ramadanmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Year in “Ramadan Fasting and Health” (2018): A Narrative Review

Beshyah

Badi²,

Elghul

et al. 2019

Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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“…After screening titles and abstracts, 49 full-text articles were retrieved for eligibility analysis. Nine studies focused on the importance and positive effects of religion on fasting for these patients [11,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] fifteen studies concentrated on the exemptions of patients with diabetes mellitus, six studies evaluated the reasons for fasting among exempted persons [23-28] [5,12-15,29-38], seven studies stressed some wrong ideas about fasting [22,26,27,[39][40][41], religious education (five studies) [42,43,47,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54] and cooperation between religious scholars and healthcare providers (thirteen studies) [15,23,42,43,46,[48][49][50][51][52][53][55][56][57][58][59] Six studies touched more than one item [15,23,[25][26]…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such joint interviews between expert doctors and religious scholars would offer clear and authoritative views and answer all commonly asked questions and inquiries [58]. Religious and traditional physicians have had more influence in permitting the breaking of fast compared to their secular colleagues (53% and 25%, respectively, p = 0.01) [59]. Collaboration of healthcare providers and religious authorities should be extended to ensure patients receive adequate education before fasting during Ramadan [23].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religion's impact on Ramadan fasting for patients with diabetes mellitus: A review of evidence

Musa¹

2020

Diabetes Updates

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Introduction: Ramadan is the holy moon month for Muslims during which they fast from predawn to after sunset. Ramadan is a divine duty for all healthy Muslim adults. There is a large number of Muslims with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who have the low-to-moderate risk that is associated with fasting.Aim: This study aims to explore the role of the Islamic religion in promoting safe Ramadan fasting for Muslim patients of diabetes mellitus.Method: A systematic search of studies relating to diabetes mellitus during Ramadan fasting was conducted between the 1 st of January 1990 and the end of February 2019 for relevant studies, using the following databases: PubMed and Google search engine. The words "religious", "fasting", "Ramadan" and "diabetes mellitus were used.Result: A total of 153 citations were initially identified. One hundred four were removed for failing to address the aim of the study, duplication, lack of proper citation, and poor use of language. After screening titles and abstracts, 49 full-text articles were retrieved for eligibility analysis. Nine studies focused on the importance and positive effects of religion on fasting for these patients, fifteen studies concentrated on the exemptions during Ramadan, six studies evaluated the reasons for fasting among exempted persons, seven studies corrected some wrong ideas about fasting, religious education (five studies) (lack of knowledge and its importance) and the effect of cooperation between religion scholars and healthcare providers (thirteen studies). Six studies covered more than one item. Conclusion:Islamic religious teachings and medical recommendations can strengthen each other to promote safe adherence to divine duty for patients with diabetes mellitus during Ramadan.

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“…There are many fears surrounding therapeutic fasting, especially from physicians [ 39 ]. In our survey, a minority of respondents considered fasting to be a dangerous method, and about half of the respondents considered the positive opinion of their primary care physician as an enabler to perform therapeutic fasting.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Therapeutic Fasting: Are Patients Aged 65 and Over Ready?

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While being the main potential beneficiaries of therapeutic fasting’s health benefits, the elderly are frequently thought of as being too fragile to fast. The main objective of our survey was to review the knowledge, practices, and acceptability of therapeutic fasting in subjects aged 65 years and over. From September 2020 to March 2021, an online questionnaire was sent to subjects aged 65 and over, using the mailing list of local organizations working in the field of aging. The mean age of the 290 respondents was 73.8 ± 6.5 years, 75.2% were women and 54.1% had higher education. Among the respondents, 51.7% had already fasted and 80.7% deemed therapeutic fasting interesting, 83.1% would be willing to fast if it was proven beneficial for their health, and 77.2% if it was proven to decrease the burden of chronic diseases. Subjects aged 65 to 74 years considered themselves as having the greatest physical and motivational abilities to perform therapeutic fasting. People aged 65 years, or more, are interested in therapeutic fasting and a large majority would be ready to fast if such practice was proven beneficial. These results pave the way for future clinical trials evaluating therapeutic fasting in elderly subjects.

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Physicians’ attitudes and views regarding religious fasting during pregnancy and review of the literature

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

The Year in “Ramadan Fasting and Health” (2018): A Narrative Review

The Year in “Ramadan Fasting and Health” (2018): A Narrative Review

Religion's impact on Ramadan fasting for patients with diabetes mellitus: A review of evidence

Therapeutic Fasting: Are Patients Aged 65 and Over Ready?

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