Nutrition
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8, January 2006

Breath acetone predicts plasma ketone bodies in children with epilepsy on a ketogenic diet

  • Kathy Musa-Veloso, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Sergei S. Likhodii, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Exequiel Rarama

      Affiliations

    • Alcohol Countermeasure Systems, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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  • Stephanie Benoit

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Hôpital Ste-Justine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Yeou-mei Christiana Liu, M.S., R.D., C.H.E.S.

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Dominic Chartrand

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Hôpital Ste-Justine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Rosalind Curtis, M.D. (F.R.C.P.(C))

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Lionel Carmant, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Hôpital Ste-Justine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Anne Lortie, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Hôpital Ste-Justine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Felix J.E. Comeau

      Affiliations

    • Alcohol Countermeasure Systems, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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  • Stephen C. Cunnane, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: 819-821-1170, ext. 2670; fax: 819-829-7141

Received 18 November 2004; accepted 19 April 2005. published online 26 September 2005.

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 The Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Hospital Foundation, Dairy Farmers of Canada, NSERC, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, and the University of Toronto Awards Division are thanked for their financial support.

PII: S0899-9007(05)00226-1

doi:10.1016/j.nut.2005.04.008

Nutrition
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8, January 2006

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