Medline ® Abstract for Reference 104
of 'The ketogenic diet and other dietary therapies for the treatment of epilepsy'
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Low-glycemic-index treatment: a liberalized ketogenic diet for treatment of intractable epilepsy.
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Pfeifer HH, Thiele EA
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Neurology. 2005;65(11):1810.
The ketogenic diet is often effective for intractable epilepsy, but many patients have trouble complying with the strict regimen. The authors tested an alternative diet regimen, a low-glycemic-index treatment, with more liberal total carbohydrate intake but restricted to foods that produce relatively little increase in blood glucose (glycemic index<50). Ten of 20 patients treated with this regimen experienced a greater than 90% reduction in seizure frequency.
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Pediatric Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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