Intermittent fasting is associated with 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death shows study

Worrying about the findings of a study that the eight-hour break can cause a greater risk of cardiovascular death! The study was done in more than 20,000 adults in the US and found that those following a type of intermittent fasting, eating eight hours a day, had 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death than those who ate 12-16 hours a day. In the preliminary study, researchers reviewed information on nutritional standards for participants in the annual national health and nutrition surveys in the US in 2003 – 2018 and compared them to data on individuals who died in the US, from 2003 to 2019, from the National Death Index database of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As they identified, the time-limited diet did not reduce the overall risk of death from any cause. On the contrary, those following intermittent fasting with food consumption over eight hours a day had 91% increased risk of cardiovascular disease death. They found that the increased risk of cardiovascular death was also observed in people living with heart disease or cancer. Also, among individuals with existing cardiovascular disease, the diet duration of less than ten hours a day was associated with 66% higher risk of death than a heart disease or stroke. Instead, the duration of food over 16 hours daily was associated with a lower risk of cancer mortality among people with cancer. “The limitation of daily eating time in a short time, such as eight hours a day, has gained popularity in recent years as a way of losing weight and improving heart health,” says study chief author, Victor Wenze Zong, professor and president of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Shanghai University Medical School Jiao Tong in Shanghai, China. “Although this type of diet was popular due to its possible short-term benefits, our research clearly shows that, compared to a typical feeding time range of 12-16 hours daily, the shorter diet duration was not related to the longer life span,” he adds. The limitations of the study included its dependence on self-reported nutritional information, which may be influenced by the memory of participants and may not accurately assess typical eating habits. Factors that may also play a role in health, other than daily eating and cause of death, were not included in the analysis. ‘In total this study suggests that limited time consumption of food can have short-term benefits, but long-term adverse effects. When the study is presented as a whole, it will be interesting and useful to learn more about the analysis, such as the quality of the nutrients of the diet of the various sub-groups of participants,” said Christopher Gardner, Professor of Medicine at the University of Stanford in California and chairman of the Committee on the Scientific Statement of the American Cardiological Society on Nutritional Instructions in 2023. He points out that it will also be crucial to see whether a comparison of the demographic and other characteristics of participants and traditional cardiometabolic risk factors, such as weight and stress, has been included. The results of the preliminary investigation were presented at a conference of the American Cardiological Society in Chicago. With information from RES – ICM