Journal: Avicenna Journal of Medicine
Year: 2016

Although more than a billion Muslims observe Ramadan fast the world over, there is still relatively a small number of studies on the effect of fasting Ramadan on CVD.Chamsi-Pasha and Ahmed [3] recruited 86 outpatients with different kinds of CVD (46 [53%] patients with coronary artery disease [CAD]) and reported that 74 patients (86%) succeeded in fasting the whole month of Ramadan, while 9 (10.4%)missed the fasting for up to 7 days and 3 (3.5%)could not fast.No significant changes observed in t