PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Pfeifer, Heidi H.
AU  - Thiele, Elizabeth A.
TI  - Low-glycemic-index treatment: A liberalized ketogenic diet for treatment of intractable epilepsy
AID  - 10.1212/01.wnl.0000187071.24292.9e
DP  - 2005 Dec 13
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 1810--1812
VI  - 65
IP  - 11
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/65/11/1810.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/65/11/1810.full
SO  - Neurology2005 Dec 13; 65
AB  - 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.