Nutritional Anemia
Nutritional Anemia
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USDThis major new comprehensive guide focuses on particular topics in the field of nutritional anemias, with in-depth coverage on each relevant nutrient whose deficiency can cause anemia, their metabolism, dietary requirements and related information. This book presents the unique hematological, and non-hematological, manifestations of each deficiency, the varied settings and causes of deficiency, interactions with other problems, diagnostic approaches and tools, synthesizing the perspectives of epidemiology, public health, and clinical hematology. Covering approaches to medical management in individuals, as well as in susceptible populations such as children, pregnant women and the elderly; and preventive strategies, such as supplementation and fortification, this exceptional text will appeal to a wide audience, from the clinician learning about the epidemiology and public health aspects of food fortification, to the public health practitioner who needs to understand clinical approaches to key nutritional anemia issues.
- Incorporates perspectives from epidemiology, public health, and clinical hematology into an informed resource on nutritional anemia
- Provides a general overview of anemia, its mechanisms and definitions, as well as addressing food fortification and the non-nutritional factors affecting manifestations of nutritional anemias – particularly in the developing world
- Includes special topics chapters on the hematologic consequences of pregnancy, alcohol abuse, bariatric surgery, and of vegetarianism and other restricted diets
Product details
April 2019Adobe eBook Reader
9781108631105
0 pages
8 b/w illus.
This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Overview:
- 1. General hematology of anemia Robert T. Means, Jr
- 2. Impact of anemia: overview Robert T. Means, Jr
- 3. Fortification of food: principles and practice Richard Hurrell and Ines Egli
- 4. Nutritional anemia and its non-nutritional influences in the developing world Julia Shaw, Jennifer Gutierrez and Jennifer Freidman
- Part II. Iron deficiency:
- 5. Laboratory assessment of iron status Carlo Brugnara
- 6. Iron deficiency without anemia Gordon McLaren and Barry Skikkne
- 7. Treatment of iron deficiency in adults Robert T. Means, Jr
- 8. Dietary iron deficiency anemia in children Clara Lo and Michael Jeng
- Part III. Copper and Vitamin D Deficiency:
- 9. Physiology of copper balance and metabolism Robert T. Means, Jr
- 10. Clinical syndromes of copper deficiency Darryl Williams
- 11. Vitamin D Ellen M. Smith and Vin Tangpricha
- Part IV. Special Topics:
- 12. Nutritional anemia during pregnancy Robert T. Means, Jr
- 13. Vegetarianism and other restricted diets Aśok C. Antony
- 14. Nutritional syndromes with anemia: alcohol Sylvia Bottomley
- 15. Anemia following bariatric surgery Benjamin Person and Raul Rosenthal.
