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Modified Atkins Diet Treatment for Adults With Drug-resistant Epilepsy

NCT01311440 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2017-09-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In Oslo University Hospital, department of complex epilepsy, offer ketogenic diet to treat children with medically intractable epilepsy. From 2009 we added modified Atkins diet as a treatment option for children up to 18 years.

We now initiate an open, prospective, randomized and controlled study with the aim to test the efficacy of treatment with modified Atkins diet in adults with focal and generalized epilepsy diagnoses, in order to evaluate whether this treatment should be offered to patients on a permanent basis.

Conditions

  • Epilepsy
  • Focal Epilepsy
  • Generalized Epilepsy

Interventions

OTHER

Modified Atkins diet treatment

Eat a diet containing 16 grams of carbohydrates per day, maximize on fat. Assure sufficient intake of micronutrients.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oslo University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karl Otto Nakken · Oslo University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-03-31
Primary Completion
2017-06-30
Completion
2017-07-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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