Main description:

This major new comprehensive guide focuses on particular topics in the field of nutritional anemias, with in-depth coverage on each relevant nutrient whose deficiency can cause anemia, their metabolism, dietary requirements and related information. This book presents the unique hematological, and non-hematological, manifestations of each deficiency, the varied settings and causes of deficiency, interactions with other problems, diagnostic approaches and tools, synthesizing the perspectives of epidemiology, public health, and clinical hematology. Covering approaches to medical management in individuals, as well as in susceptible populations such as children, pregnant women and the elderly; and preventive strategies, such as supplementation and fortification, this exceptional text will appeal to a wide audience, from the clinician learning about the epidemiology and public health aspects of food fortification, to the public health practitioner who needs to understand clinical approaches to key nutritional anemia issues.

Contents:

Part I. Overview: 1. General hematology of anemia Robert T. Means, Jr; 2. Impact of anemia: overview Robert T. Means, Jr; 3. Fortification of food: principles and practice Richard Hurrell and Ines Egli; 4. Nutritional anemia and its non-nutritional influences in the developing world Julia Shaw, Jennifer Gutierrez and Jennifer Freidman; Part II. Iron deficiency: 5. Laboratory assessment of iron status Carlo Brugnara; 6. Iron deficiency without anemia Gordon McLaren and Barry Skikkne; 7. Treatment of iron deficiency in adults Robert T. Means, Jr; 8. Dietary iron deficiency anemia in children Clara Lo and Michael Jeng; Part III. Copper and Vitamin D Deficiency: 9. Physiology of copper balance and metabolism Robert T. Means, Jr; 10. Clinical syndromes of copper deficiency Darryl Williams; 11. Vitamin D Ellen M. Smith and Vin Tangpricha; Part IV. Special Topics: 12. Nutritional anemia during pregnancy Robert T. Means, Jr; 13. Vegetarianism and other restricted diets Asok C. Antony; 14. Nutritional syndromes with anemia: alcohol Sylvia Bottomley; 15. Anemia following bariatric surgery Benjamin Person and Raul Rosenthal.