Bookedited by Robert T. Means Jr.
Summary: This 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.
Contents:
General hematology of anemia / Robert Means
Impact of anemia : overview / Robert Means
Fortification of food : principles and practice / Richard Hurrell and Ines Egli
Nutritional anemia and its non-nutritional influences in the developing world / Julia Shaw, Jennifer Gutierrez, and Jennifer Freidman
Laboratory assessment of iron status / Carlo Brugnara
Iron deficiency without anemia / Gordon McLaren and Barry Skikkne
Treatment of iron deficiency in adults / Robert Means
Dietary iron deficiency anemia in children / Clara Lo and Michael Jeng
Physiology of copper balance and metabolism / Robert Means
Clinical syndromes of copper deficiency / Darryl Williams
Vitamin D / Ellen M. Smith and Vin Tangpricha
Nutritional anemia during pregnancy / Robert Means
Vegetarianism and other restricted diets / Asok C. Antony
Nutritional syndromes with anemia : alcohol / Sylvia Bottomley
Anemia following bariatric surgery / Benjamin Person and Raul Rosenthal.