Calcium in human health
By: [edited by] Connie M. Weaver and Robert P. Heaney ; foreword by Lawrence G. Raisz.
Contributors: Weaver, Connie, 1950-; Heaney, Robert Proulx, 1927-
Series: Nutrition and health; Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Calcium in the body; Calcium in human nutrition; Calcium -- metabolism; Calcium -- pharmacology; Nutritional Requirements
Description: "Comprehensive and authoritative, Calcium in Human Health often health professionals and researchers a vast amount of current information on the sources, biological function, interactions, and disease implications of calcium, a critical benchmark resource for improving the health outcomes of individuals, finding new drugs that alter the function of the extracellular calcium receptor, setting adequate dietary requirements, and developing new disease-prevention programs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bone as the calcium nutrient reserve / Robert P. Heaney; title: Cellular functions and fluxes of calcium / Emmanuel M. Awumey and Richard D. Bukoski; title: Nutritional epidemiology / Carol J. Boushey; title: Clinical approaches for studying calcium metabolism and its relationship to disease / Connie M. Weaver; title: Kinetic studies / Meryl E. Wastney, Yongdong Zhao, and Connie M. Weaver; title: Requirements for what endpoint / Robert P. Heaney; title: Dietary calcium: recommendations and intakes around the world / Anne C. Looker; title: Food sources, supplements, and bioavailability / Connie M. Weaver and Robert P. Heaney; title: The calcium economy / Robert P. Heaney; title: Molecular regulation of calcium metabolism / James C. Fleet; title: Influence of total diet on calcium homeostasis / Zamzam K. (Fariba) Roughead; title: Influence of lifestyle choices on calcium homeostasis : smoking, alcohol, and hormone therapies / D. Lee Alekel and Oksana Matvienko; title: Influence of physical activity on calcium and bone / Matthew Vukovich and Bonny Specker; title: The case for a calcium appetite in humans / Michael G. Tordoff; title: Infancy and childhood / Steven A. Abrams and Keli M. Hawthorne; title: Pre-puberty and adolescence / Connie M. Weaver; title: Calcium in pregnancy and lactation / Heidi J. Kalkwarf; title: Calcium in systemic human health / Robert P. Heaney; title: Calcium and oral health / Elizabeth A. Krall; title: Dietary calcium and obesity / Dorothy Teegarden; title: Polycystic ovarian syndrome and reproduction / Susan Thys-Jacobs; title: Premenstrual syndrome / Susan Thys-Jacobs; title: Calcium in the later years : osteoporosis / Bess Dawson-Hughes; title: Calcium, vitamin D, and cancer / Peter R. Holt; title: Dietary calcium and the metabolic syndrome / Dorothy Teegarden; title: Calcium and phosphate control in patients with renal disease / David A. McCarron and Robert P. Heaney; title: Hypertension and cardiovascular disease / David A. McCarron.