Serial correlation between saliva and blood beta‐hydroxybutyrate levels in children commencing the ketogenic diet for epilepsy
Salivary BHB concentration strongly correlates with both serum and capillary blood BHB concentration. The POCT accurately measures salivary BHB concentration and provides a simple, user-friendly method to guide the use of KDT for children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Authors
- Ingrid Eileen Scheffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2311-2174)
- Jianxiang Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9769-3365)
- Patrick Kwan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7310-276X)
- Neha Kaul (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-5200)
- Efstratios Skafidas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4263-9972)
- Michael Erlichster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3906-5816)
- Zhibin Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1888-6917)
- Dong Cui
- Jing Duan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2182-1847)
- Jianxiong Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0352-6935)
- Dovile Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0284-471X)
Institutions
- The Royal Melbourne Hospital (AU)
- Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Parks Victoria (AU)
- Monash Health (AU)
- The Affiliated Yongchuan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (CN)
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute (AU)
- Shenzhen Children's Hospital (CN)
- Alfred Health (AU)
- Austin Health (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
- Monash Institute of Medical Research (AU)
- Chongqing Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Epilepsia
- Published
- 2025-05-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.18465
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.33
Funders
- Medical Research Council
- Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen
- High-level Hospital Construction Project of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital