Calcium in human health

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: NetLibrary, Inc.
Group Author: Weaver Connie, 1950-; Heaney Robert Proulx, 1927-
Published: Humana Press,
Publisher Address: Totowa, N.J.
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Nutrition and health
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-961-5
Carrier Form: xviii, 450 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 1592599613 (electronic bk.)
9781592599615 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: R151
CLC: R151.2
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bone as the calcium nutrient reserve / Robert P. Heaney -- Cellular functions and fluxes of calcium / Emmanuel M. Awumey and Richard D. Bukoski -- Nutritional epidemiology / 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 -- 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 in the later years : osteoporosis / 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.