Usefulness of Routine Periodic Fasting to Lower Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is common and multifactorial. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, or Mormons) in Utah may have lower cardiac mortality than other Utahns and the US population. Although the LDS proscription of smoking likely contributes to lower cardiac risk...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The American journal of cardiology 2008-10, Vol.102 (7), p.814-819.e1
Main Authors: Horne, Benjamin D., PhD, MPH, May, Heidi T., MSPH, Anderson, Jeffrey L., MD, Kfoury, Abdallah G., MD, Bailey, Beau M., BS, McClure, Brian S., BS, Renlund, Dale G., MD, Lappé, Donald L., MD, Carlquist, John F., PhD, Fisher, Patrick W., DO, PhD, Pearson, Robert R., PharmD, Bair, Tami L., BS, Adams, Ted D., PhD, MPH, Muhlestein, Joseph B., MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Body Mass Index
Cardiology
Cardiology. Vascular system
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular system
Chi-Square Distribution
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Disease - diagnostic imaging
Coronary Disease - epidemiology
Coronary heart disease
Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology
Fasting
Female
Heart
Humans
Hyperlipidemias - epidemiology
Hypertension - epidemiology
Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects)
Life Style
Logistic Models
Male
Medical imaging
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Prevalence
Radiodiagnosis. Nmr imagery. Nmr spectrometry
Registries
Regression analysis
Religion
Risk Factors
Social Support
Utah - epidemiology
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Coronary artery disease (CAD) is common and multifactorial. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, or Mormons) in Utah may have lower cardiac mortality than other Utahns and the US population. Although the LDS proscription of smoking likely contributes to lower cardiac risk, it is unknown whether other shared behaviors also contribute. This study evaluated potential CAD-associated effects of fasting. Patients (n 1 = 4,629) enrolled in the Intermountain Heart Collaborative Study registry (1994 to 2002) were evaluated for the association of religious preference with CAD diagnosis (≥70% coronary stenosis using angiography) or no CAD (normal coronaries,
ISSN:0002-9149
1879-1913
DOI:10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.05.021