{"id":21123,"date":"2025-08-25T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21123\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:02:08","slug":"intermittent-fasting-can-increase-the-risk-of-heart-disease-finds-study-heres-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21123\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermittent fasting can increase the risk of heart disease, finds study: Here&#8217;s what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123488913.jpg\" alt=\"Intermittent fasting can increase the risk of heart disease, finds study: Here's what it means\" title=\"Image credits: Getty Images\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Image credits: Getty Images Intermittent fasting is a type of eating pattern that alternates between periods of eating and voluntary fasting. One of the methods in it is the 16:8 method, which involves an eating window of 8 hours and a fasting window of 16 hours. While the method promotes various health benefits such as insulin sensitivity, lower blood pressure, controls inflammation and ensures better lipid profiles, a study published in the journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome has revealed that the dieting method could lead to more than two-fold risk of cardiovascular mortality.There have been evidences on such extreme routines leading to nutrient deficiencies, excessive hunger, headaches, irritability and more. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People who ate for less than 8 hours a day had 135% higher chances of cardiovascular mortality\" msid=\"123488950\" width=\"\" title=\"Image credits: Getty Images\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/people-who-ate-for-less-than-8-hours-a-day-had-135-higher-chances-of-cardiovascular-mortality.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image credits: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of data collected from 19,000 adults from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the study found that people who ate for less than 8 hours a day had 135% higher chances of cardiovascular mortality- death due to heart and blood vessel diseases such as heart attacks or strokes, when compared to those who ate for 12-14 hours a day. These links remained even when the results were analysed according to 8 different sub-groups, such as race, ethnicity or other socioeconomic factors.The study also looked at the connection between intermittent fasting and cancer and all-cause mortality, but there was no link found. \u201cAlthough (there could be confounding factors), people should be extremely cautious to adopt a short eating window for a long time over years to pursue cardiovascular health or longevity, which has no evidence support from human studies to date,\u201d said Victor Wenze Zhong, a senior author of the study.Previously, a retrospective study by the American Heart Association conference in March 2024 had also claimed that a 16-hour intermittent fasting was linked to a 91% higher risk of death from heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credits: Getty Images Intermittent fasting is a type of eating pattern that alternates between periods of eating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18139,18141,18137,18140,18,135,18138,19,17692,2958,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-21123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-168-method","9":"tag-cancer-and-all-cause-mortality","10":"tag-cardiovascular-mortality","11":"tag-eating-patterns","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-heart-disease-risk","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-insulin-sensitivity","17":"tag-intermittent-fasting","18":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}