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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Primary care clinicians should ask Muslims with diabetes about fasting during Ramadan to help them make informed decisions about the effects on their health, researchers say.
Many British Muslims avoid visiting their GP surgery during the holy month because they do not want to be asked about fasting, research by the universities of Manchester and Keele found.
The study, published in the journal Health Expectations, explored the beliefs that affect a Muslim?s approach to managing diabetes and found that many considered fasting during Ramadan a religious duty that should be fulfilled despite their condition
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/cl...fasting-with-muslim-diabetics/5067259.article
Many British Muslims avoid visiting their GP surgery during the holy month because they do not want to be asked about fasting, research by the universities of Manchester and Keele found.
The study, published in the journal Health Expectations, explored the beliefs that affect a Muslim?s approach to managing diabetes and found that many considered fasting during Ramadan a religious duty that should be fulfilled despite their condition
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/cl...fasting-with-muslim-diabetics/5067259.article