Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

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Paperback, 496 blz. | Engels
Humana Press | 0e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9781617374173
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Humana Press 0e druk, 2010 9781617374173
Onderdeel van serie Nutrition and Health
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The Handbook of Nutrition in Ophthalmology is the first general text on nutrition and eye health created for physicians, nutritionists, and researchers. The author provides important links between the epidemic of obesity and implications it has for eye disease and blindness. The volume also includes chapters addressing nutritional aspects of preventing eye disease in diabetes mellitus and other optical neuropathies, making this a unique book.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781617374173
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:496
Uitgever:Humana Press
Druk:0

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Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

Richard D. Semba

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Series Editor's Introduction

Foreword

Preface

1. Nutrition Blindness (Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders)

2. Cataract

3. Age-Related Macular Degeneration

4. The Obesity Epidemic: Implications for Eye Health

5. Nutrition and Diabetic Retinopathy

6. Retinal Vascular Disease

7. Nutritional Amblyopia and Vitamin B Complex Deficiencies

8. Zinc and Eye Health

9. Vitamin C and Eye Health

10. The Age-Related Proinflammatory State and Eye Disease

11. Essential Fatty Acids and Visual Development in Infants

12. Inborn Errors of Metabolism

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