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Metabolic changes in Asian Muslim pregnant mothers observing the Ramadan fast in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Ashok Malhotra ,
P. H. Scott ,
J. Scott ,
H. Gee  and
B. A. Wharton
Ashok Malhotra
Affiliation:
Sorrento Maternity Hospital, Birmingham B13 9HE and Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD
P. H. Scott
Affiliation:
Biochemistry Department, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD
J. Scott
Affiliation:
Biochemistry Department, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD
H. Gee
Affiliation:
Sorrento Maternity Hospital, Birmingham B13 9HE and Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD
B. A. Wharton
Affiliation:
Sorrento Maternity Hospital, Birmingham B13 9HE and Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD
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1. Metabolic changes associated with Ramadan fasting were studied in eleven Asian pregnant mothers. This was compared with a group of control mothers undergoing a normal physiological fast.

2. At the end of the Ramadan fast day there was a significant fall in glucose, insulin, lactate and carnitine, and a rise in triglyceride, non-esterified fatty acid and 3-hydroxybutyrate. When compared with the control group, none of the Ramadan mothers had a completely normal set of biochemical values at the end of the fast day.

3. Pregnancy outcome in the two groups was comparable.

4. We are wary of the metabolic departures from normal observed in the Ramadan fasting mothers. If asked we advise mothers to take up the dispensation from fasting during pregnancy which is allowed.

Type
Hormones, Metabolism
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , May 1989 , pp. 663 - 672
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1989

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