Revista de enfermería y cuidados

Intermittent Fasting in Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Abstract

Seyed Afshin Shorofi

Intermittent fasting is a powerful technique to sell weight reduction. The optimum version of intermittent fasting in accomplishing weight control and cardiometabolic hazard discount is an underexplored however essential issue. This look at become designed to take a look at the outcomes of alternate-day fasting (ADF) and sixteen/eight timeconfined fasting (sixteen/eight TRF) on weight reduction, blood glucose, and lipid profile in obese and overweight adults with prediabetes. A randomized managed trial become carried out on a pattern of one zero one obese and overweight adults with prediabetes. The individuals had been randomized into the ADF organization (n=34), sixteen/eight TRF organization (n=33), and manipulate organization (n=34). The intervention lasted for three weeks. Data on frame weight, frame mass index, waist circumference, blood glucose, and lipid profile had been amassed at baseline, on the cease of the intervention, and on the three-month follow-up. The discounts in frame weight, frame mass index, and waist circumference withinside the ADF and sixteen/eight TRF companies had been extra massive than the ones withinside the manipulate organization throughout the look at length (all ps<0.05). Moreover, massive discounts on blood glucose and triglycerides had been determined withinside the intervention companies as well. Furthermore, the discounts in frame weight and frame mass index withinside the ADF organization had been extra massive than the ones withinside the sixteen/eight TRF organization (all ps<0.001). However, variations at the modifications in blood glucose, waist circumference, and low-density lipoprotein ldl cholesterol among the 2 intervention companies had been now no longer massive. The blessings of ADF and sixteen/eight TRF in selling weight reduction in obese/overweight adults with prediabetes had been proven on this look at. ADF become proven to have extra-massive discount outcomes on frame weight and frame mass index than sixteen/eight TRF. These findings suggest the capacity gain of integrating intermittent fasting regimens into regular nutritional styles to lessen the hazard of diabetes and cardiovascular sickness on this population.