A new study has claimed that intermittent fasting could lead to serious health risks including heart conditions.

The study was published by The American Heart Association based on date of around 20,000 adults in the US. The data from 2003-2018 for this new study was collected by the Centers for Disease Control.

This study highlighted that people with an 8-hour eating limit have a 91% higher risk of death by cardiovascular disease.

It was stated that eight and 10 hours of eating per day was connected with a 66% higher risk of death from heart disease or stroke than people having cardiovascular diseases.

Cancer patients who have 6-hour-per-day per day eating duration have a lowered cancer mortality risk.

The American Heart Association reported that experts showed concern towards the limit of this study pointing out the need for further study. Future study needs to investigate the biological aspects that lie behind an intermittent fasting schedule and cardiovascular results.

The author of this study, a professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Victor Wenze Zhong reported that it is unknown that the long-term effects of time-restricted eating can cause death from any cause or cardiovascular disease.

“We were surprised to find that people who followed an 8-hour, time-restricted eating schedule were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease. Even though this type of diet has been popular due to its potential short-term benefits, our research clearly shows that, compared with a typical eating time range of 12-16 hours per day, a shorter eating duration was not associated with living longer,” Zhong said.

This study’s researchers are not sure that will time-restricted eating might have long-term and short-term benefits and negative effects.

There is research showing that intermittent fasting could improve “cardiometabolic health measures such as blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol levels,” according to the American Heart Association.

For further study, the nutrient quality of the diets needs to be examined as well, experts said.

This study reviewed the respondents based on the impact of following an 8-hour time-restricted eating plan in the annual 2003-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) in comparison to data about people who died in the U.S., from 2003 through December 2019, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Death Index database.