DESCRIPTION:
New evidence-based insights and developments
Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent today not only among the elderly but pervasively throughout all ages of life.This is due, in part, to systemic diseases that affect vitamin D metabolism, to changes in lifestyle, such as insufficient exposure to sunlight, and to increased use of sunscreen. Apart from the obvious effects of vitamin D deficiency on skeletal metabolism, the problem is assuming even greater significance because observational and interventional studies have linked vitamin D deficiency to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes.
This book addresses a variety of important issues that have emerged from this fast-moving area of clinical medicine. The topics include assays of vitamin D and its binding protein, effects on aging and associated complications, primary and secondary states of altered parathyroid hormone secretion, vitamin D in the growing years of children and adolescents, nutritional requirements, and vitamin D as it relates to systemic disorders such as diabetes mellitus.
Vitamin D in Clinical Medicine aims to offer new insights, in an evidence-based way, on important issues related to vitamin D. It is written for general practitioners and internists, as well as for endocrinologists, nutritionists, pulmonologists, cardiologists, and oncologists.
CONTENTS:
Preliminaries
Physiology of the Calcium-Parathyroid Hormone-Vitamin D Axis
Vitamin D Assays
Vitamin D-Binding Protein
New Concepts in Vitamin D Requirements for Children and Adolescents: A Controversy Revisited
Practical Issues in Vitamin D Replacement
Extra-Skeletal Effects of Vitamin D
Hypercalcemic States Associated with Abnormalities of Vitamin D Metabolism
Vitamin D and Hypoparathyroidism
Vitamin D and Primary Hyperparathyroidism
Vitamin D and Secondary Hyperparathyroid States
Vitamin D and Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
Vitamin D and Diabetes Mellitus
Vitamin D, Sarcopenia and Aging
Vitamin D Homeostasis and Diseases in Pediatrics