Effect and Safety of Shihogyejitang for Drug Resistant Childhood Epilepsy

Table 5

Comparison to studies on ketogenic diet in patients with refractory epilepsy.

	Treatment	Number	Median ageat start of treatment	Response rate						Retention rate
				At 3 months		At 6 months		At 12 months		At 3 months	At 6 months	At 12 months
				>50% reduction^††	Seizure-free	>50% reduction^††	Seizure-free	>50% reduction^††	Seizure-free
Our study	SGT	54	16.5 months	68.5%	35.2%	44.4%	24.1%	22.2%	14.8%	81.5%	53.7%	22.2%
Kang et al., 2005 [18]	Ketogenic diet	199	57.9 months^†	61.8%	35.2%	57.8%	33.2%	41.2%	25.1%	87.9%	68.3%	45.7%
Sharma et al., 2009 [19]	Ketogenic diet	27	2.5 years	59.3%	11.1%	48.1%	14.8%	37.0%	18.5%	88.9%	55.6%	37.0%
Suo et al., 2013 [20]	Ketogenic diet	317	39.6 months^†	35.0%	20.8%	26.2%	13.6%	18.6%	10.7%	62.8%	42.0%	24.3%

Mean age.
⁢>50% reduction included seizure-free cases.
SGT, Shihogyejitang.