Manual On Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders Vadd

Author : D.S. McLaren,K. Kraemer
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318021448

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Manual on Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders (VADD) by D.S. McLaren,K. Kraemer Pdf

Vitamin A plays a key role among the vitamins essential for healthy growth and development. Vitamin A deficiency disorders (VADD) are therefore an important part of general malnutrition that in the majority of cases leads to failure to thrive and underweight. Moreover, apart from adverse effects on health and survival in general, VADD can also lead to blindness, called xerophthalmia, and are also frequently accompanied by various infections. Last but not least, it has become evident that even mild degrees of VAD (and all other forms of nutritional deficiencies) have important adverse implications for health and are thus much more widespread than previously assumed.This publication systematically covers detailed and up-to-date information on every relevant aspect of VADD, with particular emphasis on providing an outline of their setting, nature, and significance. In addition to cutting-edge scientific information, the latest available data on the global occurrence of VAD from the World Health Organization is also included.

Author : Donald Stewart McLaren,Martin Frigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Vitamin A deficiency
ISBN : 3906412008

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Sight and Life Manual on Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders (VADD) by Donald Stewart McLaren,Martin Frigg Pdf

Author : Donald Stewart McLaren,Klaus Kraemer
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318021431

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Manual on Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders (VADD) by Donald Stewart McLaren,Klaus Kraemer Pdf

An up-to-date and comprehensive handbook Vitamin A plays a key role among the vitamins essential for healthy growth and development. Vitamin A deficiency disorders (VADD) are therefore an important part of general malnutrition that in the majority of cases leads to failure to thrive and underweight. Moreover, apart from adverse effects on health and survival in general, VADD can also lead to blindness, called xerophthalmia, and are also frequently accompanied by various infections. Last but not least, it has become evident that even mild degrees of VAD (and all other forms of nutritional deficiencies) have important adverse implications for health and are thus much more widespread than previously assumed. This publication systematically covers detailed and up-to-date information on every relevant aspect of VADD, with particular emphasis on providing an outline of their setting, nature, and significance. In addition to cutting-edge scientific information, the latest available data on the global occurrence of VAD from the World Health Organization is also included.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Micronutrient Deficiencies
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309060295

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Prevention of Micronutrient Deficiencies by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Micronutrient Deficiencies Pdf

Micronutrient malnutrition affects approximately 2 billion people worldwide. The adverse effects of micronutrient deficiencies are profound and include premature death, poor health, blindness, growth stunting, mental retardation, learning disabilities, and low work capacity. Preventing Micronutrient Deficiencies provides a conceptual framework based on past experience that will allow funders to tailor programs to existing regional/country capabilities and to incorporate within these programs the capacity to address multiple strategies (i.e., supplementation/fortification/food-based approaches/public health measures) and multiple micronutrient deficiencies. The book does not offer recommendations on how to alleviate specific micronutrient deficienciesâ€"such recommendations are already available through the publications of diverse organizations, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Micronutrient Initiative, World Bank, United Nations Childrens' Fund, and the World Health Organization. Instead, this volume examines key elements in the design and implementation of micronutrient interventions, including such issues as: The importance of iron, vitamin A, and iodine to health. Populations at risk for micronutrient deficiency. Options for successful interventions and their cost. The feasibility of involving societal sectors in the planning and implementation of interventions. Characteristics of successful interventions. The book also contains three in-depth background papers that address the prevention of deficiencies of iron, vitamin A, and iodine.

Author : Alfred Sommer,World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241544788

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Vitamin A Deficiency and Its Consequences by Alfred Sommer,World Health Organization Pdf

Rev. ed. of: Field guide to the detection and control of xerophthalmia. 2nd ed. 1982.

Author : Carlos A. Medina,Justin H. Townsend,Arun D. Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319204604

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Manual of Retinal Diseases by Carlos A. Medina,Justin H. Townsend,Arun D. Singh Pdf

This book is a comprehensive source of authoritative information on the clinical features,diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and management of medical and surgical retinal diseases. The Manual has 122 chapters, organized in 18 sections covering medical and surgical aspects of retinal diseases such as trauma, AMD, Uveitis, infections, endophthalmitis, pediatric diseases, dystrophies, and tumors. Easy-to-read chapters convey the fundamental concepts with the aid of clinical photographs, imaging studies (including fluorescein and indocyanine angiograms, ultrasonograms, CT scans, and MRI scans) and tables. The manual is of value to a wide range of practitioners and trainees, including students,residents, fellows and ophthalmologists who treat retinal diseases.

Author : Rune Blomhoff
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0824791207

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Vitamin A in Health and Disease by Rune Blomhoff Pdf

Reviews the recent breakthroughs in vitamin A research. Discusses the metabolism of vitamin A; the mechanism of action of vitamin A and the provitamin A carotenoids; the role of retinoids in embryonic development, skin and epithelial cells, blood cells, vision, and reproduction; vitamin A deficiency and teratogenicity; and the anticancer role of vitamin A from an epidemiological point of view. Intended as a source of information for scientists engaged in research in the field of vitamin A.

Author : R.D. Semba
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318021899

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The Vitamin A Story by R.D. Semba Pdf

This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.

Author : Alfred Sommer,Keith P. West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Public health
ISBN : 0195088247

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Vitamin A Deficiency by Alfred Sommer,Keith P. West Pdf

Many studies over the past decade and a half have indicated that vitamin A status is an important determinant of health. The World Bank now estimates that vitamin A intervention programs are some of the most cost-effective health strategies globally. This new book, written by leadinginvestigators in the field, is the first to synthesize the many important studies to date. The authors identify and quantify the biological, clinical and public health impact of vitamin A deficiency on childhood growth, mortality and morbidity, including anemia and blindness. They deal with theepidemiologic and biological basis of these findings, and with the prevention and treatment of these disorders, particularly of measles, diarrhea and xeorophthalmia. Alternative approaches to identifying individuals and populations in need of intervention, alternative strategies for improvingvitamin A and carotenoids, and the relationship between vitamin A and immunity are discussed. This comprehensive volume on a critically important and widespread nutritional deficiency will serve as a unique resource for nutritionists, physicians, public health workers and policy makers, and will beespecially relevant to clinicians and researchers in international health.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes,Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes,Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients,Panel on Dietary Antioxidants and Related Compounds
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309069496

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Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids by Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes,Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes,Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients,Panel on Dietary Antioxidants and Related Compounds Pdf

This volume is the newest release in the authoritative series of quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for healthy people. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) is the newest framework for an expanded approach developed by U.S. and Canadian scientists. This book discusses in detail the role of vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and the carotenoids in human physiology and health. For each nutrient the committee presents what is known about how it functions in the human body, which factors may affect how it works, and how the nutrient may be related to chronic disease. Dietary Reference Intakes provides reference intakes, such as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs), for use in planning nutritionally adequate diets for different groups based on age and gender, along with a new reference intake, the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL), designed to assist an individual in knowing how much is "too much" of a nutrient.

Author : Harriet V. Kuhnlein,Gretel H. Pelto,International Development Research Centre (Canada),International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Food habits
ISBN : 9780889367685

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Culture, Environment and Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency by Harriet V. Kuhnlein,Gretel H. Pelto,International Development Research Centre (Canada),International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries Pdf

Culture, Environment, and Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency

Author : Janos Zempleni,John W. Suttie,Jesse F. Gregory III,Patrick J. Stover
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781466515574

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Handbook of Vitamins by Janos Zempleni,John W. Suttie,Jesse F. Gregory III,Patrick J. Stover Pdf

Within the last few years, knowledge about vitamins has increased dramatically, resulting in improved understanding of human requirements for many vitamins. This new edition of a bestseller presents comprehensive summaries that analyze the chemical, physiological, and nutritional relationships, as well as highlight newly identified functions, for a

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241548373

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Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children by World Health Organization Pdf

The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.

Author : Sheila Chander Vir
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789380308753

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Public Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries (Part I and II) by Sheila Chander Vir Pdf

The book presents an update on public health and nutrition problems of developing countries with a description of approaches used and efficiency of trials undertaken for addressing these. Additionally, it highlights the experiences emerging from up-scaling intervention programme planning and implementation.

Author : Ismail Cakmak,Ross M. Welch
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848260931

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Impacts of Agriculture on Human Health and Nutrition - Volume I by Ismail Cakmak,Ross M. Welch Pdf

Impacts of Agriculture on Human Health and Nutrition is a component of Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Agriculture on Human Health and Nutrition provides the essential aspects and a number of issues of importance in human life: Global Prevalence of Micronutrient Malnutrition and Impacts on the Health of Children; Community-Centered Food-Based Strategies for Alleviating and Preventing Malnutrition; Influence of Mineral Fertilizers on Nutritional Quality of Staple Food Crops; Molecular Genetic Approaches to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Staple Food Crops; Nutritional Consequences of Using Organic Agricultural Methods in Developing Countries which are then expanded into multiple subtopics, each as a chapter. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.