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Effect of Ramadan fasting on cardiometabolic health

open access: yes, 2023
Although Ramadan fasting is a mandatory ritual practised by hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide every year, studies on its effects on cardiometabolic health are scarce.
Al Jafar, Rami
core   +1 more source

Ramadan Is Not the Same As Ramadan Fasting [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nutrition, 2020
Andrea U, Seiermann, Sabine, Gabrysch
openaire   +2 more sources

Maternal Ramadan Fasting and Neonatal Health [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Perinatology, 2004
This retrospective cohort study sought to determine the effects of maternal Ramadan fasting during pregnancy on neonatal birth weight as an important aspect of fetal health. It was carried out among healthy women who were admitted for their neonate delivery at two medical centers in Tehran from January to September 2000.
Zohreh, Kavehmanesh, Hassan, Abolghasemi
openaire   +2 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

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Microstructural effects of Ramadan fasting on the brain: a diffusion tensor imaging study

open access: yes, 2015
PURPOSEWe aimed to examine whether the brain displays any microstructural changes after a three-week Ramadan fasting period using diffusion tenson imaging.METHODSThis study included a study and a control group of 25 volunteers each.
Evrim Özmen   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Ramadan fasting on cardiovascular risk factors: A narrative review [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Fasting and Health, 2016
Ramadan is considered as holy month of Muslims worldwide. During this month, most able-bodied Muslim adults refrain from foods, drinks, smoking, and medications from dawn until sunset.
Davood Soleimani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Islamic Religiosity Constrain Liberal Democratic Attitudes?

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between Islam and democracy remains contested. Although some scholars argue that the two are inherently incompatible, others maintain that they can coexist harmoniously. Although the existing literature includes a growing number of empirical studies testing these competing claims, many are constrained by limitations in data ...
Zeki Sarigil
wiley   +1 more source

Is spatial orientation affected by Ramadan fasting? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose: Ramadan intermittent fasting (RIF) has produced heterogeneous and domain-specific effects on cognitive function. This study aims to investigate the effect of RIF on verticality perception or estimation of subjective visual vertical (SVV) in ...
Abdul Razzak, R.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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