Intermittent Fasting Towards Elevated Blood Pressure

Summary

To date, the prevalence of Hypertension (HPT) is getting increase worldwide. This situation is contributed mostly by the Lower-Income Countries (LIC) and Lower-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) include Asians. Elevated Blood Pressure (EBP) in the early phase is often unrealized before developing to HPT, leading to several diseases in terms of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). In preventing EBP, the European Society of Cardiology in 2017 classifies blood pressure into three groups; normal, pre-hypertension, and hypertensive crisis. People in the normal phase with the high-normal line are classified into EBP. If this group is determined and controlled, they will further keep in normal blood pressure. Contrarily, they are experiencing the next phase of HPT.

Like other Asian countries, Indonesia was experiencing an extreme prevalence of HPT, and Aceh, which is one of the provinces in Indonesia has a very high prevalence of HPT as well (20% increment from 2013-2018), is estimated to equal to the EBP prevalence. Despite many promotive and preventive interventions confirmed to decrease HPT, early screening has been convinced to recover the HPT in Indonesia. However, the HPT prevalence was examined steadily increasing. Intermittent fasting (IF) is recognized as a new method in decreasing metabolic factors based on several types of research currently. Therefore, the investigators are studying the effectiveness of intermittent fasting on people with EBP. Conducting healthy lifestyle intervention that is inexpensive, doable, and easily accessible, would be a new method for controlling EBP.

Conditions

• Intermittent Fasting
• Elevated Blood Pressure

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intermittent fasting

The intervention group is required to perform intermittent fasting for two days. The intermittent fasting method for this group will mimic the Sunnah Muslim fasting; they are allowed to consume food and calorie water without restriction in between dusk and dawn. During the five ad libitum days, they are allowed to have a variety of foods and drinks. Subjects will be informed about healthy food choices; choosing low-fat meat and dairy options, increasing fruit and vegetable intake.

OTHER

No intervention

The control group will receive education training at the baseline as well, regarding blood pressure and nutrition. They will have usual exercise prior to the intervention. Furthermore, the group will have equal health education through health promotion leaflets which have been issued by the ministry of health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Muhammadiyah Aceh

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Malaya

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mas Ayu Said, MPH, PhD · University of Malaya

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-09-27

Primary Completion

2022-03-13

Completion

2022-03-13

Countries

• Indonesia

Study Locations