Sentences with phrase «starting ketogenic therapy»
Children with drug resistant epilepsy are at risk of insufficient vitamin D status prior to starting ketogenic therapy (3) and although levels can be normalised with vitamin D supplementation, a decline in both whole body and spine bone mineral content while on the ketogenic diet has been reported (4) despite reduction in anticonvulsant medication.
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In this 2017 study of epileptic children, 20 out of 120 subjects (over 16 %) developed hypothyroidism within 6 months of starting a ketogenic diet therapy and were treated with synthetic T4 thyroid hormone (7).