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ReviewJournal of family medicine and primary care

Diabetes and Ramadan: A concise and practical update.

Mohamed H Ahmed, Nazik Elmalaika Husain, Wadie M Elmadhoun, Sufian K Noor, Abbas A Khalil, Ahmed O Almobarak

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Review in Journal of family medicine and primary care. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Diabetes Care During Hajj.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mohamed H AhmedDepartment of Medicine and HIV Metabolic Clinic, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK.
Nazik Elmalaika HusainDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Omdurman Islamic University, Khartoum, Sudan.
Wadie M ElmadhounDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Nile Valley University, Atbara, Sudan.
Sufian K NoorDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Nile Valley University, Atbara, Sudan.
Abbas A KhalilDepartment of Surgery, Whiston Hospital, Merseyside, UK.
Ahmed O AlmobarakDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the fact that the month of Ramadan includes 29-30 days and the duration of fasting for each day can last for between 12 and 16 h, it was estimated that a large number of individuals with diabetes do fast during Ramadan. In light of recent advancement of new pharmacological agents, drugs such as vildagliptin, sitagliptin, and liraglutide were found to be safe to use during this month of fasting. These therapeutic agents can also be used in combination with metformin. The use of sulfonylureas, in most of the recent guidelines about diabetes and Ramadan, seems not to gain much support due to the risk of hypoglycemia. In this review, we also addressed the use of insulin injection, insulin pump, and education before, during, and after Ramadan. Further research is needed to determine (i) the therapeutic benefit of new antidiabetic agents and (ii) the benefit of new technologies for the treatment of diabetes.

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DiabetesfastingRamadan

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PMCPMC5629872

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