Study the Effects of Ramadan Fasting on the Serum Glucose and Lipid Profile among Healthy Jordanian Students

Abstract

Abstract:Ramadan is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar and Muslims fast during this month. We designed this study to evaluate the effect of Ramadan fasting on plasma lipids profile and serum glucose among healthy Jordanian students. Ramadan fasting entails major changes in sleep pattern, physical activity and eating habits, which may cause changes in metabolism both in health and disease. This cohort study was performed during Ramadan in October 2006 (Islamic year 1427). The subjects were 70 healthy Jordanian students (male and female) from three Jordanian universities who fasted during Ramadan. Their mean age was 21 ±1.6 years. We evaluated some anthropometric parameters as body weight (Kg), pulse rate (per minute) and systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mmHg). All parameters at 4 week of Ramadan were significantly lower than pre-Ramadan values, 2 weeks after Ramadan fasting, body weight and other parameters had a trend to recoup to pre-Ramadan status; however, they were still lower than the pre-Ramadan values. We evaluated blood glucose, triglycerides (TG), cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and Triglycerides at 1 day before, at week 1, 2, 4 of the Ramadan month and after tow weeks after the end of Ramadan. It was found that high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol increased significantly during Ramadan, which indicated positive association with pulse rate and fat intake and negative association with systolic blood pressure and weight. . The LDLc was significantly reduced at the end of fasting. A reduction in the average TC value was observed at the end of fasting but the difference was not statistically and there no significant rise in the TG and blood sugar values at the end of fasting. This study indicated that Ramadan fasting led to a decrease weight, LDLc significantly, and significant not statistically reduction in the average TC value, and significantly increasing in HDLc was noted during Ramadan. There was a non-significant rise in the TG, and blood sugar value at the end of fasting. It seems that the effect of Ramadan fasting on serum lipid levels may be closely related to the nutritional diet or biochemical response to starvation.

A Prospective Study Comparing the Effects of Ramadan Fasting on Metabolic Parameters in Healthy Muslims from Three Different Nationalities in Dubai

“…A study done in Jordan showed non-significant rise in triglyceride and Weight before(KG) blood glucose at end of fasting [19], which is also a non-significant finding in our study.…”

Effect of Ramadan Fasting on Serum Lipid Profile among Healthy Students in UiTM

“…Ramadan fasting are provides an excellent opportunity to study the effects of the prolonged reduction of meal frequency on body metabolism. In this study, there was no significance difference between of cholesterol before and during fasting Ramadan (p=0.052).The previous also showed cholesterol increase in subjects during fasting Ramadan and there was no significance difference [5] [6].But some studies have reported there are decreases in total cholesterol during fasting Ramadan. [4] The changes are occurred probably due to the change of proportion and type fat intake of subjects.In the study subjects of 6 women and 5 men that the consumption of low fat diets induces a decrease of plasma cholesterol and accompanied with body weight reduction.…”

“…Its also showed the significant reduction in LDL occurred regardless of the tendency of consume fried food that increase during Ramadan compared to before Ramadan. [12] Anthony (2005) [13] showed the LDL cholesterol were forms the fatty deposits in arterial wall and which become plaques that grow, rupture and stimulate the formation of artery blocking blood clots. This LDL a potential causative role in atherosclerosis and heart disease.…”

Relation of Serum and Semen Malondialdehyde and Total Anti-Oxidants with Sperm Parameters in Infertile Men

“…Inclusion criteria were the males aged >22 years which married for more than one year, having normal sperm count (sperm count of ≥20×10 6 mL −1 ) (Engel et al, 1999;Mansi et al, 2007), none were taking an oral antioxidant supplement for three months prior to the study and their wives have not been pregnant from their marriage. Exclusion criteria were intercourse problems, chronic disease including diabetes mellitus, substance, alcohol or drug abuse, semen samples with more than 1×10 6 mL −1 neutrophils using peroxidase staining (World Health Organization WHO), 1999; Marjani et al, 2008) or other round cells and use of contraception methods within last year before presentation.…”

“…The most common method is ABTS-based method in which a colorless molecule, reduced ABTS, is oxidized to a blue-green ABTS. When the colored ABTS is mixed with any substrate that can be oxidized, it is reduced to its original colorless form again (Erel, 2004;Mansi et al, 2007).…”