The role for ketogenic diets in epilepsy and status epilepticus in adults
Ketogenic diet (KD) therapies are high fat, low carbohydrate diets designed to mimic a fasting state. Although studies demonstrate KD’s success in reducing seizures stretching back nearly a century, the last 25 years have seen a resurgence in diet therapy for the management of drug-resistant epileps...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Clinical Neurophysiology Practice |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2467981X1730015X |