Ketogenic diet improves sleep quality in children with therapy-resistant epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-65

  Hallböök, Tove ^a   Lundgren, Johan ^a   Rosén, Ingmar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Behavior; Children; EEG; Epilepsy; Ketogenic diet; Quality of life; REM sleep; Sleep; Slow wave sleep

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REM SLEEP; SEIZURE; SLEEP; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP STAGE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; THERAPY EFFECT; THERAPY RESISTANCE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETONE BODIES; KETOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846245520     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00834.x     Document Type: Article

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