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 |