Establishing an Adult Epilepsy Diet Center: Experience, efficacy and challenges

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 61-68

  Cervenka, Mackenzie C ^a   Henry, Bobbie J ^a   Felton, Elizabeth A ^a   Patton, Katlyn ^a   Kossoff, Eric H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Diet therapy; Epilepsy; Ketogenic; Modified Atkins; Seizure

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACNE; ADULT; ALOPECIA; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANT EPILEPSY; ECCHYMOSIS; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HALITOSIS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; KETOGENIC DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED ATKINS DIET; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN STUDY; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DIET, CARBOHYDRATE-RESTRICTED; DRUG RESISTANT EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962722736     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2016.02.038     Document Type: Article

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