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Socioeconomic and Linguistic Factors in Paediatric Type 1 Diabetes: Exploring Glycemic Outcomes, Technology Use, and Residual Beta‐Cell Function in Migrant‐Background Populations

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To investigate associations between migrant status, socioeconomic factors (SES), and residual beta‐cell function and glycemic outcomes in paediatric type 1 diabetes. Methods Retrospective study of 208 children (median [IQR] age 11 [8–14] years; 119 Italian, 89 from migrant‐background families) with glucometric (HbA1c, TIR, TITR, TAR, CV),
Silvia Savastio, Andrea E. Scaramuzza, Erica Pozzi, Valeria Castorani, Eleonora Chiarle, Aurora Craici, Valentina Todescato, Claudio Cavalli, Ivana Rabbone   +8 more
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Effect of Prolonged Intermittent Fasting in Ramadan on Biochemical and Inflammatory Parameters of Healthy Men

Journal of Clinical and Basic Research, 2017
Introduction: Ramadan is an Islamic month during which Muslims abstain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to sunset. Ramadan is a model of prolonged intermittent fasting.
Fatemeh Mohammadzade, Mohammad Ali Vakili, Alireza Seyediniaki, Saeed Amirkhanloo, Mehran Farajolahi, Hamideh Akbari, Samira Eshghinia   +6 more
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Hypothyroidism and Ramadan fasting

Journal of Fasting and Health, 2014
Introduction: Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan is an obligation for all adult, healthy Muslims. As several studies have indicated, both fasting and energy restriction can alter thyroid hormone metabolism and affect the clinical features and well-being of hypothyroid patients. Hypothyroidism is more prevalent among women and the elderly.
Hadjzadeh, Mousa-Al-Reza, Pakdel, Roghayeh, Hayatdavoudi, Parichehr, Nematy, Mohsen   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Ramadan Fasting in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Single-Centre Retrospective Study

Journal of Transplantation, 2018
Background. Fasting during the lunar month of Ramadan is mandatory to all healthy adult Muslims. Renal transplant recipients are often worried about the impact of fluid and electrolyte deprivation during fasting on the function of their allograft.
Ihab A. Ibrahim, Ehab A. Hassan, Abdelrahman M. Alkhan, Mohamed A. Hussein, Ahmed F. Alhabashi, Tariq Z. Ali, Yasir Z. Shah, Ibrahim S. Alahmadi, Mohamed S. Abdelsalam, Mohamed E. Rashwan, Ammar Abdulbaki, Dieter C. Broering, Hassan A. Aleid   +12 more
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Ramadan Fasting Exerts Immunomodulatory Effects: Insights from a Systematic Review

Frontiers in Immunology, 2017
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar and is observed by Muslims as a month of fasting. All Muslim adults are expected to fast; nevertheless certain subgroups, including sick, frail subjects, and pregnant women, among others, are ...
Mohammad Adawi, Abdulla Watad, Abdulla Watad, Stav Brown, Khadija Aazza, Hicham Aazza, Mohamed Zouhir, Kassem Sharif, Kassem Sharif, Khaled Ghanayem, Raymond Farah, Hussein Mahagna, Hussein Mahagna, Stefano Fiordoro, Samir Giuseppe Sukkar, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Naim Mahroum, Naim Mahroum   +17 more
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The Effect of Ramadan on Tax Compliance: Empirical Evidence on Religiosity and Tax Morale

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religiosity and tax morale affect voluntary and enforced tax compliance by comparing Ramadan and non‐Ramadan periods in Turkiye (Isparta). Data collected from a Turkish taxpayer sample were evaluated using multiple regression analysis.
Suleyman Dikmen
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A Mixed‐Method Study on Gender and Intrahousehold Differences in Food Consumption From Khatlon Province, Tajikistan

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tajikistan faces significant food insecurity and multiple forms of malnutrition in its population, with women particularly at risk. Social norms related to gender and intrahousehold hierarchy are pervasive. Yet, how gender impacts dietary intake in Tajikistan remains to be studied.
Sarah M. L. Pechtl, Mohru Mardonova, Tanzila Ergasheva, Isabel B. Lambrecht   +3 more
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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