High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence

ABSTRACT Dietary manipulations like ketogenic diets are established interventions for recalcitrant epilepsy. However, it remains unknown whether specific macronutrient exposure through dietary environments could possibly extend to primary preventive qualities, associated with changes in epilepsy dis...

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Main Authors: Duan Ni, Alistair Senior, David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson, Ralph Nanan
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2025-05-01
Series:Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70017
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description ABSTRACT Dietary manipulations like ketogenic diets are established interventions for recalcitrant epilepsy. However, it remains unknown whether specific macronutrient exposure through dietary environments could possibly extend to primary preventive qualities, associated with changes in epilepsy disease burden (prevalence and incidence). Here, macronutrient supply, GDP, and idiopathic epilepsy disease burden data were collated from more than 150 countries from 1990 to 2018. Nutritional geometry generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) modeling unraveled that dietary environments with high‐fat and low‐carbohydrate supplies were linked to lower epilepsy incidence and prevalence. Our analyses suggested a plausible primary preventive role of dietary manipulations for epilepsy.
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spelling doaj-art-15ca6576bea34af4a681d067cabe818d2025-08-20T02:25:34ZengWileyAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology2328-95032025-05-011251077108110.1002/acn3.70017High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and PrevalenceDuan Ni0Alistair Senior1David Raubenheimer2Stephen J. Simpson3Ralph Nanan4Sydney Medical School Nepean The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales AustraliaCharles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales AustraliaCharles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales AustraliaCharles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales AustraliaSydney Medical School Nepean The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales AustraliaABSTRACT Dietary manipulations like ketogenic diets are established interventions for recalcitrant epilepsy. However, it remains unknown whether specific macronutrient exposure through dietary environments could possibly extend to primary preventive qualities, associated with changes in epilepsy disease burden (prevalence and incidence). Here, macronutrient supply, GDP, and idiopathic epilepsy disease burden data were collated from more than 150 countries from 1990 to 2018. Nutritional geometry generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) modeling unraveled that dietary environments with high‐fat and low‐carbohydrate supplies were linked to lower epilepsy incidence and prevalence. Our analyses suggested a plausible primary preventive role of dietary manipulations for epilepsy.https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70017dietary environmenthigh‐fat low‐carbohydrateidiopathic epilepsymacronutrient
spellingShingle Duan Ni
Alistair Senior
David Raubenheimer
Stephen J. Simpson
Ralph Nanan
High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
dietary environment
high‐fat low‐carbohydrate
idiopathic epilepsy
macronutrient
title High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence
title_full High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence
title_fullStr High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence
title_full_unstemmed High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence
title_short High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence
title_sort high fat and low carbohydrate dietary environments are linked to reduced idiopathic epilepsy incidence and prevalence
topic dietary environment
high‐fat low‐carbohydrate
idiopathic epilepsy
macronutrient
url https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70017
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