Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Fasting during Ramadan is an obligatory duty for all healthy adult Muslims. However, a lot of type 2 diabetic Muslim patients insist on fasting whatever their condition. There are several potential physiological benefits from fasting, but the prolonged fasting hours during summer provides many questions about safety and efficacy of different insulin regimens for treatment of type 2 diabetic patients during Ramadan. So we aimed in this study is to assess safety and ...