The effect of ketogenic diet escalation in adolescents and adults with drug-resistant epilepsy: a prospective study.

Nirmeen Adel KishkHanaa Zaghloul YousofAsmaa Mohamed EbraheimThanaa Abdel Fattah Ali ElkholyShaimaa H SolimanRanda Adel MohammedReham Mohamed Shamloul

Published in: Nutritional neuroscience (2021)

KD has a beneficial effect as adjunctive treatment in adolescents and adults with DRE. Escalation from 2:1 to 3:1 ratio is associated with less compliance rather than better response in patients with DRE.

Keyphrases

drug resistant
physical activity
young adults
multidrug resistant
acinetobacter baumannii
open label
weight loss
randomized controlled trial
clinical trial
double blind