Relation between fasting in hot seasons and increasing or decreasing of stroke

Abstract

Islamic fasting, as it is different from other types of foodlessness, certainly has different effects on human health and diseases. During fasting, a person is forced to change the time of medication and increase and decrease the interval between medications, and on the other hand, reducing blood volume and homoconcentration in hot weather of the year causes a change in metabolism. The aim of this study is to relation between fasting in hot seasons and increasing or decreasing of stroke. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective case control study, all patients who were referred and hospitalized in the emergency department of Imam Reza Hospital during the holy month of Ramadan in 2019 with a complaint and a final diagnosis of stroke were included in the study as a case group (88 people) and for matching in terms of time and season, patients who were admitted to the emergency department of Imam Reza Hospital with a complaint and final diagnosis of stroke in the month of Dhi Al-Qaeda in 2019, were included in the study as a control group (77 patients). The sampling method was census (165 people). Results: In this study, the mean (standard deviation) age of the subjects was 67.77 (±15.00) years. The most common risk factor among these patients was hypertension with 109 cases (66.1%). Among all variables related to demographics, number of days of fasting and risk factors studied, none of the variables gender, age, fasting more than 15 days, fasting less than 15 days, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, OCP consumption, smoking, Passive smoker, addiction, alcohol consumption, Snoring, CABG, atrial fibrillation, heart valve disease, artificial heart valve, heart failure, heart attack, carotid artery stenosis, cerebrovascular accidents, TIA, CVT, DVT, VBI, peripheral vascular disease and ICH history, there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups of fasting and non-fasting stroke patients studied (P-value> 0.05).