[Nutritional status and bone mineral mass in children treated with ketogenic diet].
Ketogenic diet (KD) is a high fat (90%), low carbohydrate (3%) diet used to treat refractory seizures in child. This highly unbalance diet could damage nutritional status. The aim of this study is to evaluate if KD can affect on growth and on mineral status in child. Seven child (1 females and 6 males) age between 3-16 years were retrospectively studied to assess nutritional status during KD; we evaluated anthropometric measurements (weight, height, skinfold and circumferences), bone mineral content and bone mineral density, using x-ray energy absorptiometry (DXA) and some biochemical parameters. We have not found any short term modifications (six months) concerning growth, and biochemical parameters studied. KD could worsen bone mineral status.
Bertoli
Simona
S
Centro Internazionale per lo Studio della Composizione Corporea, Università degli Sudi di Milano. simona.bertoli@unimi.it
Striuli
Licia
L
Testolin
Giulio
G
Cardinali
Simonetta
S
Veggiotti
Pierangelo
P
Salvatori
Gian Carlo
GC
Tagliabue
Anna
A
D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D015519:Bone Density; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000097:blood / Q000178:diet therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007657:Ketone Bodies / Q000097:blood; D007659:Ketones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors
D007657:Ketone Bodies; D007659:Ketones