ea0021p162 | Diabetes and metabolism | SFEBES2009
Norouzy Abdolreza
, Nematy Mohsen
, Sabery Maryam
, Reza Mohajeri Mohammad
, Shakeri Farnaz
, Yari Sara
Ramadan is a month for Muslims during which they abstain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to sunset. The recommendations regarding the safety of fasting for type 2 diabetic patients have been based on expert opinion rather than evidence based medicine and sometimes controversial. In this study, we looked at the effect of Ramadan fasting on glycaemic control of type 2 diabetic patients on oral hypoglycaemic agents.Eighty-eight diabetic patients...