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Table 3 Number of visits with AEs. Visits may have more than one AE type

From: Is fasting safe? A chart review of adverse events during medically supervised, water-only fasting

 

Highest Grade AE

MedDRA term

Total n (%)

1

2

3

4

5

Fatigue

370 (48.2)

165

191

14

0

0

Insomnia

257 (33.5)

171

49

37

0

0

Nausea

247 (32.2)

207

40

0

0

0

Headache

231 (30.1)

157

44

30

0

0

Hypertension

224 (29.2)

56

91

77

0

0

Presyncope

217 (28.3)

0

217

0

0

0

Dyspepsia

199 (25.9)

190

9

0

0

0

Back pain

197 (25.7)

149

28

20

0

0

Pain in extremity

123 (16)

101

10

12

0

0

Abdominal pain

116 (15.1)

100

8

8

0

0

Diarrhea

109 (14.2)

90

11

8

0

0

Vomiting

96 (12.5)

76

15

5

0

0

Arthralgia

93 (12.1)

75

8

10

0

0

Palpitations

89 (11.6)

87

2

0

0

0