Calcium in human health / edited by Connie M. Weaver and Robert P. Heaney ; foreword by Lawrence G. Raisz.
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- Language:
- English
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- Medical Subjects:
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- Physical Description:
- xviii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2006]
- Contents:
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- Bone as the calcium nutrient reserve / Robert P. Heaney
- Cellular functions and fluxes of calcium / Emmanuel M. Awumey and Richard D. Bukoski
- Nutritional epidemiology: dietary assessment methods / Carol J. Boushey
- Clinical approaches for studying calcium metabolism and its relationship to disease / Connie M. Weaver
- Kinetic studies / Meryl E. Wastney, Yongdong Zhao, and Connie M. Weaver
- Requirements for what endpoint? / Robert P. Heaney and Connie M. Weaver
- Dietary calcium: recommendations and intakes around the world / Anne C. Looker
- Food sources, supplements, and bioavailability / Connie M. Weaver and Robert P. Heaney
- The calcium economy / Robert P. Heaney
- Molecular regulation of calcium metabolism / James C. Fleet
- Influence of total diet on calcium homeostasis / Zamzam K. (Fariba) Roughead
- Influence of lifestyle choices on calcium homeostasis: smoking, alcohol, and hormone therapies / D. Lee Alekel and Oksana Matvienko
- Influence of physical activity on calcium and bone / Matthew Vukovich and Bonny Specker
- The case for a calcium appetite in humans / Michael G. Tordoff
- Infancy and childhood / Steven A. Abrams and Keli M. Hawthorne
- Pre-puberty and adolescence / Connie M. Weaver
- Calcium in pregnancy and lactation / Heidi J. Kalkwarf
- Calcium in systemic human health / Robert P. Heaney
- Calcium and oral health / Elizabeth A. Krall
- Dietary calcium and obesity / Dorothy Teegarden
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome and reproduction / Susan Thys-Jacobs
- Premenstrual syndrome / Susan Thys-Jacobs
- Calcium throughout the life cycle: the later years / Bess Dawson-Hughes
- Calcium, vitamin D, and cancer / Peter R. Holt
- Dietary calcium and the metabolic syndrome / Dorothy Teegarden
- Calcium and phosphate control in patients with renal disease / David A. McCarron and Robert P. Heaney
- Hypertension and cardiovascular disease / David A. McCarron.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1588294528
- OCLC:
- 58451714
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