Re: Fasting followed by vegetarian diet in patients with rheumatoidarthritis: a systematic review.

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[ ] Fasting followed by vegetarian diet in patients with

rheumatoidarthritis: a systematic review.

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> Scand J Rheumatol 2001;30(1):1-10

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> Fasting followed by vegetarian diet in patients with rheumatoid

> arthritis: a systematic review.

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> Muller H, de Toledo FW, Resch KL.

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> Balneology and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Institute (FBK), Bad

> Elster, Germany. horst.mueller@...

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> Clinical experience suggests that fasting followed by vegetarian

> diet may help patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We reviewed

> the available scientific evidence, because patients frequently ask

> for dietary advice, and exclusive pharmacological treatment of RA is

> often not satisfying. Fasting studies in RA were searched in MEDLINE

> and by checking references in relevant reports. The results of the

> controlled studies which reported follow-up data for at least three

> months after fasting were quantitatively pooled. Thirty-one reports

> of fasting studies in patients with RA were found. Only four

> controlled studies investigated the effects of fasting and

> subsequent diets for at least three months. The pooling of these

> studies showed a statistically and clinically significant beneficial

> long-term effect. Thus, available evidence suggests that fasting

> followed by vegetarian diets might be useful in the treatment of RA.

> More randomised long-term studies are needed to confirm this view by

> methodologically convincing data.

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> Publication Types:

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> * Meta-Analysis

> * Review

> * Review, Academic

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> PMID: 11252685 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]