Intermittent fasting may raise risk of death due to heart attack, stroke: Study | India News

NEW DELHI: Intermittent fasting, a fad among many in India and abroad, may help shed some extra kilos in short-term but a new study presented at American Heart Association’s (AHA) event in Chicago recently claims the practice may actually be counterproductive and increase the risk of death due to heart attack and stroke in long run.
In this study, which is not peer-reviewed or published yet, researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in Shanghai, China, analysed two 24-hour dietary recall questionnaires of approximately 20,000 adults in the US and correlated it with all-cause and cause-specific mortality among them after a median length of eight to maximum 17 years.
They found that those who followed an 8-hour time-restricted eating schedule, a type of intermittent fasting, had a 91% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
The study’s limitations included its reliance on self-reported dietary information, which may be affected by participant’s memory or recall and may not accurately assess typical eating patterns.
Dr Ashok Seth, chairman, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute said, several studies are available on the short-term impact of intermittent fasting on a person’s health, but the one presented at AHA conference is among the first few to assess its long-term impact.

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