Table 4.

ASD patients responsive to ketogenic diet implementation.

Pat. no	Cardinal symptoms	Non-autistic symptoms	Pre-CARS	Age of treatment initiation in years	Post-CARS 6 months after treatment initiation	Cardinal symptoms 6 months after treatment initiation
1	Hyperactivity, attention deficit, not responding to verbal cues, no speech, compulsive behavior, preoccupation with parts of objects, abnormal sleep	Pathologic EEG	41	3,5	21	No symptoms
2	Hyperactivity, attention deficit, not responding to verbal cues, no speech, aggressive or self-injurious behavior	Pathologic MRI	41	6	32	Improvement of all symptoms, no hyperactivity, no attention deficit
3	Hyperactivity, attention deficit, sustained inappropriate play, compulsive behavior, abnormal speech	Pathologic EEG	41	4	33	Improvement of all symptoms especially in speech, no hyperactivity
4	Hyperactivity, attention deficit, not responding to verbal cues, stereotype	Consanguinity	39	3,5	30	Improvement of all symptoms
5	Hyperactivity, attention deficit, not responding to verbal cues, no speech, compulsive behavior, preoccupation with parts of objects, sustained inappropriate play	Positive family history	45	4	40	Minimal improvement of all symptoms
6	Hyperactivity, attention deficit, no speech, compulsive behavior, sustained inappropriate play	Food intolerance (aggravation of symptoms after carbohydrate ingestion)	41	5	37	Moderate improvement in speech and attention deficit; minimal improvement of remaining symptoms

See legend to Table 2 for details. Patients were not undergoing adjuvant therapy during ketogenic diet intervention.