Publications by authors named "Arefe Parvaresh"
The aim of present study was to compare, and determine, the effects of a modified alternate-day fasting diet vs. calorie restriction on inflammatory indices and coagulation factors. This was a randomized clinical trial consisting of 80 metabolic syndrome patients, who were enrolled and randomly dichotomized into a modified alternate-day fasting diet or calorie restriction group for 4 months.
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- The study compared the effects of calorie restriction and modified alternate-day fasting on adults with metabolic syndrome over 8 weeks.
- Out of 70 participants, 69 completed the trial, and results showed that modified alternate-day fasting led to significant reductions in body weight, waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, and fasting plasma glucose compared to calorie restriction.
- However, no meaningful differences were found between the two diets in terms of lipid profiles, blood pressure (diastolic), or insulin measures, indicating both diets were similarly tolerable.
- The findings suggest that modified alternate-day fasting may be a more effective strategy for some metabolic syndrome parameters, but further research is needed to validate these results.
Some studies have suggested chemopreventive and therapeutic effects of quercetin (Q) on carcinogenesis. The aim of this review was to evaluate the association between Q and ovarian cancer risk among human researches and induced sensitivity to some types of chemotherapeutic drugs and antiproliferative effects of this flavonoid in the animals and cell lines studies. Data for this systematic review were achieved through searches of the MEDLINE (PubMed), Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, Cochrane, SID, and Magiran databases for studies published up to May 2015.
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