Fasting

Healthy adults who fasted for the entirety of simulated night-shift work displayed compensatory hyperinsulinemia and maintained glucose tolerance compared with participants who consumed a meal or snack, study results showed.

Results from the INFINITY-SWEDEHEART trial showed that Elixir Medical’s drug-eluting coronary implant was noninferior to a drug-eluting stent for target lesion failure at 1 year.

Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was noninferior and likely superior to fasting for safety, and improved patient satisfaction, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

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Patients not required to fast before cardiac catheterization reported higher overall postprocedural satisfaction with no periprocedural adverse events, a speaker reported.

Once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use was associated with a “significantly higher prevalence” of increased residual gastric content among fasted patients undergoing elective procedures under anesthesia, research showed.

BOSTON — Intermittent fasting was associated with weight loss and improved markers of glycemic control and anthropometric measures in adults with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes and overweight or obesity, data presented at NUTRITION showed.

In the quest for practical strategies for treating obesity, intermittent fasting has emerged as a popular and potentially transformative approach.

Water fasting offers clinically significant weight loss, but metabolic benefits seem to be short-lived, according to an expert.

SAN DIEGO — Time-restricted feeding offers benefits for weight loss, but it is not superior to other calorie-restriction diets, according to a presenter at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.