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Main description:
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.
Contents:
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
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 514
Weight: 964g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Biochemistry, General Practice, Geriatrics, Nutrition, Ophthalmology and Optometry, Public Health
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