The influence of religiously motivated fasting during Ramadan on the autonomic nervous system of students

The article examines the impact of religiously motivated fasting during Ramadan on the autonomic nervous system of students. A comparative analysis of the state of the autonomic nervous system of fasting and non-fasting foreign students is conducted. The study involved 35 foreign students from near and far abroad, 2nd year students of the medical faculty of Irkutsk State Medical Academy, who gave written informed consent to participate in the study. The results of the study are a statistically significant absence of changes in the VLF% ort indicator during the orthostatic test in those students who observed the Ramadan fast, while in non-fasting students this indicator increased significantly.