… Nonetheless, dietary treatment options remain a valid option for patients with epilepsy, and
the … an overview of the efficacy of dietary interventions for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy. …

… ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet… pediatric epilepsy in the mid-1990s.
Recent clinical and scientific knowledge supports the use of the KD in drug-resistant epilepsy …

… diets must be medically managed as there can be adverse effects. The focus of this review
is on the pediatric … starvation became the drive to formulate the ketogenic diet (KD). The …

Objectives. To systematically review and synthesize the available evidence on the efficacy
of the ketogenic diet in reducing seizure frequency for children with refractory epilepsy. Data …

… The evidence base for the efficacy of the ketogenic diet was assessed among pediatric
epileptic patients by application of a rigorous statistical meta-analysis. Nineteen studies from 392 …

… The ketogenic diet has been widely and successfully used to treat children with drug-resistant
epilepsy since the 1920s. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of the ketogenic diet …

… Ketogenic Diet Study Group, a panel of 26 pediatric epilepsy specialists and dieticians,
published a consensus report agreeing that ketogenic diets should be … generalized epilepsies [3]. …

… diet was performed. PubMed and Ovid searches were performed using the keywords
epilepsy/therapy, dietary therapy, ketogenic diet, … the use of classic ketogenic diet in patients under …

… of a ketogenic diet in the treatment of epilepsy and informs … drug-resistant epilepsy with
a ketogenic diet has grown so … study of a ketogenic diet in refractory pediatric epilepsy was …

Although the ketogenic diet (KD) was first proposed as treatment for epilepsy in 1921, it fell …
in the KD for those patients whose epilepsy is refractory to standard anticonvulsant therapy. …