Prevalence of low dietary calcium intake in patients with epilepsy: A study from South India

Menon, Bindu; Harinarayan, CV; Raj, Marella Neelima; Vemuri, Swapna; Himabindu, G.; Afsana, TK

doi:10.4103/0028-3886.63793

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“…35 To date, there are only a few studies in Italy, the United States, and India that have assessed nutritional intakes in children with epilepsy. [37][38][39] These studies have shown that children with intractable epilepsy are at risk of poor nutritional status with decreased nutritional intake, and our study reaffirms this. Despite vitamin D and calcium intake not appearing to be a risk factor for 25(OH)D deficiency in our study, knowledge that a high proportion of Malaysian children with epilepsy have poor nutritional intake is invaluable.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…This is significantly lower when compared to a previous Malaysian study, which showed that approximately 50% of Malaysian children did not achieve the recommended vitamin D and calcium intake . To date, there are only a few studies in Italy, the United States, and India that have assessed nutritional intakes in children with epilepsy . These studies have shown that children with intractable epilepsy are at risk of poor nutritional status with decreased nutritional intake, and our study reaffirms this.…”

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confidence: 67%

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Vitamin D deficiency and its risk factors in Malaysian children with epilepsy

Fong

Kong

Poh³

et al. 2016

Epilepsia

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Vitamin D deficiency and its risk factors in Malaysian children with epilepsy

Fong

Kong

Poh³

et al. 2016

Epilepsia

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“…Moreover, vitamin D and calcium are responsible for bone and mental health, and patients treated with antiepileptic drugs are particularly vulnerable to osteoporosis and depression [55]. Other studies have shown low calcium intake by patients with epilepsy [56]. The study also showed signi cantly lower vitamin C and potassium and higher sodium intakes by epileptics.…”

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confidence: 81%

Dietary and Lifestyle Behavior in Adults With Epilepsy Needs Improvement: A Case-control Study From North-eastern Poland

Kulesza

Cyuńczyk

Kochanowicz

et al. 2020

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Background: Several factors predispose people with epilepsy to cardiovascular diseases. Among them nutrition and lifestyle have not been sufficiently studied. Methods. The study involved 60 epileptic male and female volunteers and 70 healthy controls, corresponding to age and gender. Medical information was collected during the study and a detailed questionnaire survey concerning eating and lifestyle habits was conducted. Physical activity was evaluated using International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Nutritional status was assessed by bioelectric impedance. Venous blood samples were taken for lipid and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) analyses. Results. A tendency to an increase in LDL cholesterol was found in epileptics. Significantly higher body fat and insignificantly higher visceral fat was found in epileptic men compared to healthy men. In epileptic women a tendency to lower lean body mass was found. Patients with epilepsy were more sedentary, had lower consumption of cottage cheese, fruit, pulses, nuts and seeds, vitamin C and potassium, and higher intake of sugar-sweetened soda, energy from fat and sodium compared to healthy people. As a positive point, epileptics consumed less coffee and alcoholic beverages. More than 80% of diets of epilepsy people were low in folic acid, vitamin D and calcium, but similar tendency was observed in the healthy people. The diets of patients with epilepsy were in a higher percentage poor in niacin, vitamin C and potassium compared to the control group, 25% to 7%, 50% to 31% and 73 to 56% respectively. A significantly lower serum concentration of 25(OH)D3 was observed in epileptic individuals, which in this group was found to be positively modulated by physical activity.Conclusions. The study indicates that several behavior-related habits, which may predispose epileptic people to cardiovascular disease, need to be improved. For this reason, patients with epilepsy should be provided with more comprehensive medical care, including advice on nutrition and physical activity.

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“…The 19th century which was known as the "Biological Era", studies on metabolism and chemistry were done, helping the science of nutrition on defining their role in the development and prevention of chronic diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and bone metabolism disorders [21]. Throughout the 20th century, Nutritional Science focused on finding vitamins [23] and minerals [24], defining their use and preventing the deficiency diseases [25][26][27][28] that they caused. Later, nutrition related health problems of the developed world shifted to over nutrition, obesity [29] and type-2 diabetes [30,31], the focus of modern medicine and of Nutritional Science changed.…”

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Nutrigenomics: The Science to Unfold the Impact of GM Food on Health

Gupta¹

2018

FSNT

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After the development of second generation transgenic crops, molecular characterization of food and feed and its impact on health became imperative. The growing awareness towards the impact of modified food or diet on human health led down the foundation of nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomics is an emerging field of science that tends to unfold the role of nutrition on gene expression which brings together the science of bioinformatics, nutrition, molecular biology, genomics, epidemiology and molecular medicine. The present review focuses on origin, status, strategies and goals of Nutrigenomics research. Omics supported different techniques, which have been considered as the best research tools to study the effect of diet/ food on the genome, are also discussed in relation to Nutrigenomics. To gain deeper insight of diet-gene interaction and to develop biomarker for early prediction of diet related diseases, there is an urgent need to boost more research in the field of Nutrigenomics to help people in understanding the relationship between diet and health.

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Prevalence of low dietary calcium intake in patients with epilepsy: A study from South India

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Vitamin D deficiency and its risk factors in Malaysian children with epilepsy

Vitamin D deficiency and its risk factors in Malaysian children with epilepsy

Dietary and Lifestyle Behavior in Adults With Epilepsy Needs Improvement: A Case-control Study From North-eastern Poland

Nutrigenomics: The Science to Unfold the Impact of GM Food on Health

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