Research Article

The Effectiveness of Modified Atkins Ketogenic Diet on Children with Intractable Epilepsy: A Pilot Study from Indonesia

Table 2

The effect of giving the MAD ketogenic diet to children with intractable epilepsy in reducing seizure frequency.

VariablePre median (range)Post median (range)p value

Seizure frequency
 0th and 1st month (n = 31)120 (30–150)60 (13–148)0.144
 0th and 3rd month (n = 13)90 (33–150)34 (10–151)0.221
 0th and 6th month (n = 9)60 (6–195)10 (5–157)0.028

Wilcoxon test.