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A Prospective Study on Changes in Nutritional Status and Growth Following Two Years of Ketogenic Diet (KD) Therapy in Children with Refractory Epilepsy.

Marisa ArmenoAntonella VeriniMariana Del PinoMaria Beatriz AraujoGraciela MestreGabriela ReyesRoberto Horacio Caraballo
Published in: Nutrients (2019)
The nutritional follow-up of these patients was helpful to improve overweight and thinness but could not avoid growth deceleration in some of them. These findings confirm that children with refractory epilepsy on KD treatment require careful growth monitoring.
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