For our annual Top 10 list of the "best" articles of the past year related to the ketogenic diet, I decided to get a "second opinion"! I asked Dr. Christina Bergqvist from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to weigh in on her personal top 10. Dr. Bergqvist is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and an expert on the ketogenic diet. She has published 10 peer-reviewed articles about the ketogenic diet and is well-known especially for her prospective, randomized trial that showed that a fasting approach is not necessary for seizure control.
- Eric Kossoff MD
These articles and summaries are presented at a technical level, but it may be interesting to some readers to scan over the conclusions, and see the research being done on the diet.
Happy New Year to all our friends of the ketogenic diet (KD) and dietary treatment for epilepsy! 2008 was an exciting year. There have been many firsts this year. Our first consensus article was written, there was a first international KD conference in Phoenix, and the first case controlled study of the KD was completed by the British. The KD should no longer be considered an "alternative treatment" instead considered a mainstay treatment for refractory epilepsy. There has been progress when it comes to understanding of the mechanism(s) involved with the KD and its use may expand into other diseases. Over 80 articles have been published. Below are the top ten "must read articles" in no particular order.
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