Research Article
The Effectiveness of Modified Atkins Ketogenic Diet on Children with Intractable Epilepsy: A Pilot Study from Indonesia
Table 1
Characteristics of research subjects.
| | Subject characteristics | Total n = 31 (%) |
| | Gender (%) | | Male | 14 (45.2) | | Female | 17 (54.8) | | Seizure age (months), median | 17 (6–69) | | Age (months), median | 105 (28–198) | | The amount of OAE taken before the diet, n (%) | | 2 drugs | 3 (9.7) | | 3 drugs | 22 (71.0) | | 4 drugs | 4 (12.9) | | >4 drugs | 2 (6.5) | | Nutritional status, n (%) | | Well | 19 (61.3) | | Not enough | 12 (38.7) | | Associated disease, n (%) | | Intellectual disability | 17 (54.8) | | Cerebral palsy | 7 (21.6) | | Impaired vision | 1 (3.2) | | Sleep/eating disturbances | 2 (6.5) | | Hyperactive/aggressive | 1 (3.2) | | Microcephaly | 3 (9.7) | | MRI/CT scan results, n (%) | | Normal | 1 (3.2) | | Abnormal | 30 (96.8) | | EEG results, n (%) | | Normal | 7 (22.6) | | Abnormal | 24 (77.4) | | Seizure type, n (%) | | Tonic | 8 (25.8) | | Clonic | 1 (3.2) | | Clonic tonic | 13 (41.9) | | Focal | 4 (12.9) | | Myoclonic | 2 (6.5) | | Atonic | 3 (9.7) | | Seizure frequency before ketogenic diet/month | 120 (30–150) |
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