Link to the recommendations outlining this classification: https://drc.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001248
A group of diabetes specialists, the majority of whom are Muslim, wrote evidence-based recommendations regarding the suitability of fasting for diabetes patients.
These recommendations were published in 2020 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which is the second highest global journal in internal medicine.
According to these recommendations, patients are divided into four main categories based on the level of risk:
In the following sections, we will detail these categories in order, so that every diabetes patient can identify the category to which they belong.