Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Aug 1998)

Ketogenic Diet Complications

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-12-8-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 8
pp. 60 – 61

Abstract

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Serious adverse events are reported in five (10%) of 52 children, aged 1.5-16 years, treated with the ketogenic diet (4:1 ratio/fat: carbohydrate) over a 22-month period at the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

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