Favorable Changes in Lipid Profile: The Effects of Fasting after Ramadan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Shehab, Abdullah ^a   Abdulle, Abdishakur ^a   El Issa, Awad ^a   Al Suwaidi, Jassim ^b   Nagelkerke, Nico ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET RESTRICTION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RAMADAN; RELIGION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; FASTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84868088773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047615     Document Type: Article

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