The ketogenic and Atkins diets: Recipes for seizure control

Practical Gastroenterology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 53-64

  Turner, Zahava ^a,b   Kossoff, Eric H ^c  

^a John M Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ATKINS DIET; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSTIPATION; DIET; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROTEIN DIET; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745584085     PISSN: 02774208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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