Very-low-calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD) in the management of metabolic diseases: systematic review and consensus statement from the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE)

Massimiliano Caprio1, Marco Infante2, Eleonora Moriconi3, Andrea Armani4, Andrea Fabbri2, Giovanna Mantovani5, Stefania Mariani6, Carla Lubrano6, Eleonora Poggiogalle6, Silvia Migliaccio7, Lorenzo Maria Donini6, Sabrina Basciani6, Angelo Cignarelli8, Eleonora Conte8, Giovanni Ceccarini9, Fausto Bogazzi10, Laura Cimino11, Rosita A. Condorelli11, Sandro La Vignera11, Aldo E. Calogero11, Alessandra Gambineri12, Linda Vignozzi13, Flavia Prodam14, Gianluca Aimaretti14, Giuseppe Linsalata15, Simona Buralli15, Fabio Monzani15, Antônio Aversa16, Roberto Vettor17, Ferruccio Santini9, Paolo Vitti10, Lucio Gnessi6, Uberto Pagotto12, Francesco Giorgino8, Annamaria Colao18, Andrea Lenzi6
1San Raffaele Roma Open University
2Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Systems Medicine, CTO A. Alesini Hospital, ASL Roma 2, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
3Sapienza’ University of Rome
4Laboratory of Cardiovascular Endocrinology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Via di Val Cannuta, 247, 00166, Rome, Italy
5Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Endocrinology and Diabetology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
6Section of Medical Pathophysiology, Food Science and Endocrinology, Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome , Rome, Italy .
7Section of Health Sciences, Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, “Foro Italico” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
8Section of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Andrology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
9Endocrinology Unit, Obesity and Lipodystrophy Center, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
10Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
11Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
12Endocrinology Unit and Center for Applied Biomedical Research, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna – S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
13Andrology, Women's Endocrinology and Gender Incongruence Unit, Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, University of Florence, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy.
14Endocrinology, Department of Translational Medicine and Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
15Geriatrics Unit, Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
16Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
17Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy.
18Section of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.

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