Vitamin A Deficiency
Health, Survival and Vision
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 May 1996
- ISBN 9780195088243
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 241x171x26 mm
- Weight 779 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp colour plates, black and white photographs, line figures and tables 0
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Short description:
In much of the developing world, vitamin A deficiency is a serious public health problem. It was formerly known to blind half a million children each year (hence Sommer's Nutritional Blindness, OUP, 1982), but studies by Sommer and others have now established that it causes other diseases and kills even more young children than it blinds. This book gives the fullest and most authoritative account of vitamin A deficiency and its impact on world health.
MoreLong description:
Over the past decade and a half, many studies have implicated vitamin A status as an important determinant of health. The World Bank now estimates that vitamin A intervention programs may be one of the most cost-effective health strategies in all of medicine. This new book, by investigators who have led these developments, is the first to synthesize the many important studies to date and to identify and quantify the biological, clinical and public health impact of vitamin A deficinecy on childhood growth, mortality and morbidity, including anaemia and blindness.
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. It will be especially relevant to clinicians and scientists in international health.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction
Background
Part II: Consequences of vitamin A deficiency
Child Survival
Infectious morbidity
Xerophthalmia and Keratomalacia
Anemia and Iron Metabolism
Growth
Part III: Mechanisms
Contributory and Precipitating Events
Biochemistry of vitamin A and Carotenoids
The Relationship Between Immunocompetence and vitamin A Status
Part IV: Treatment
Treatment of vitamin A Deficiency and Xerophthalmia
Part V: Assessment and Prevention
Assessment of vitamin A Status
Epidemiology of Deficiency
Dietary Intervention
Supplementation
Fortification of Dietary Items with vitamin A
