Unraveling the nutritional challenges in epilepsy: Risks, deficiencies, and management strategies: A systematic review
Mohammed Al-Beltagi, Nermin Kamal Saeed, Adel Salah Bediwy, Reem Elbeltagi
Mohammed Al-Beltagi, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 31511, Alghrabia, Egypt
Mohammed Al-Beltagi, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center, King Abdulla Medical City, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 26671, Bahrain
Nermin Kamal Saeed, Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Pathology, Salmaniya Medical Complex, Governmental Hospitals, Manama 12, Bahrain
Nermin Kamal Saeed, Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Pathology, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Busaiteen 15503, Muharraq, Bahrain
Adel Salah Bediwy, Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Alghrabia, Egypt
Adel Salah Bediwy, Department of Pulmonology, University Medical Center, King Abdulla Medical City, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 26671, Bahrain
Reem Elbeltagi, Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen 15503, Muharraq, Bahrain
Co-first authors: Mohammed Al-Beltagi and Nermin Kamal Saeed.
Author contributions: Al-Beltagi M contributed to conceptualization, methodology, data collection, writing—original draft, and supervision; Saeed NK contributed to literature review, data analysis, writing—review and editing, and critical revision of the manuscript; Bediwy AS contributed to methodology, validation, manuscript revision, and contribution to clinical insights; Elbeltagi R contributed to data curation, writing—review and editing, and assistance in structuring the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to this work.
PRISMA 2009 Checklist statement: This systematic review complies with the PRISMA 2009 guidelines, and the completed PRISMA checklist is provided in the supplementary materials.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Mohammed Al-Beltagi, MD, PhD, Professor, Chief Physician, Depar
tment of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, 1 Hassan Radwan Street, Tanta 31511, Alghrabia, Egypt.
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Received: December 18, 2024
Revised: February 24, 2025
Accepted: March 18, 2025
Published online: June 20, 2025
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