Effect of diurnal intermittent fasting during Ramadan on ghrelin, leptin, melatonin, and cortisol levels among overweight and obese subjects: A prospective observational study

• Natheer Al-Rawi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, College of Dental Medicine/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Mohamed Madkour,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Haitham Jahrami,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Rehabilitation Services, Periphery Hospitals, Ministry of Health, Manama, Bahrain, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain

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• Dana Salahat,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Fatima Alhasan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

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• Ahmed BaHammam,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Mo'ez Al-Islam Faris

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mfaris@sharjah.ac.ae, moezfaris@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences/Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences (RIMHS), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-2616

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