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Not all very-low-carbohydrate diets are created equal. Reply to Conte C, Camajani E, Lai A, Caprio M [letter]

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Abbreviations

DNSG:

Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group

VLCKD:

Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Andrew N. Reynolds & Jim I. Mann

  2. Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Andrew N. Reynolds & Jim I. Mann

  3. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    Hana Kahleova

  4. Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Diabetes Centre, Praha, Czech Republic

    Hana Kahleova

  5. School of Medicine, Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

    Matti Uusitupa & Ursula Schwab

  6. Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

    Kjeld Hermansen

  7. Division of Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Anne-Marie Aas

  8. Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Anne-Marie Aas

  9. Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Human Nutrition, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

    Ursula Schwab

  10. Department of Human Nutrition, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Michael E. J. Lean

  11. Department of Endocrinology Diabetes and Nutrition, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Andreas Pfeiffer

  12. Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia, Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain

    Jordi Salas-Salvadó

  13. CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBER Obn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

    Jordi Salas-Salvadó

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Reynolds, A.N., Kahleova, H., Uusitupa, M. et al. Not all very-low-carbohydrate diets are created equal. Reply to Conte C, Camajani E, Lai A, Caprio M [letter]. Diabetologia 66, 1754–1755 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-023-05963-y

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