%0 Journal Article
%A López-Bueno, Marta
%A Fernández-Aparicio, Ángel
%A González-Jiménez, Emilio
%A Montero-Alonso, Miguel Ángel
%A Schmidt-RioValle, Jacqueline
%T Self-Care by Muslim Women during Ramadan Fasting to Protect Nutritional and Cardiovascular Health.
%D 2021
%U https://hdl.handle.net/10668/24856
%X The practice of Ramadan involves a series of changes in lifestyle, mainly in eating habits. The research aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of overweight-obesity, the degree of compliance with dietary recommendations and the effects of religious fasting on cardiovascular health among a population of Muslim women living in Melilla, a Spanish city in North Africa. A follow-up cohort study was conducted on 62 healthy adult women (33.6 ± 12.7 years). Anthropometric and body composition parameters were obtained using bioimpedance and dietary records. All of the participants were overweight or obese, especially due to the non-compliance with dietary recommendations; however, more than 60% considered their weight was appropriate or even low. By the end of Ramadan, the women's body mass index and fat component values had fallen significantly (p
%K Ramadan
%K anthropometry
%K bioimpedance
%K eating habits
%K obesity
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