Overview
- Delivers a concise, evidence-based review of the evidence for the role of vitamin D in various lung disorders
- Written by an international group of expert authors to promote international readership
- Essential text for researchers in the respiratory field and practicing clinicians including internists, pulmonologists, and primary care personnel
Part of the book series: Respiratory Medicine (RM)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Vitamin D Mechanisms of Relevance to Lung Diseases
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Disease Associations
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Back Matter
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About this book
Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide problem and many associations with diseases are being discovered. Recently, there has been an interest in the role that vitamin D plays in the inception and progression of lung disease. Vitamin D and the Lung: Mechanisms and Disease Associations delivers a concise, evidence-based review of the evidence for a role of vitamin D in various lung disorders. Divided into three sections, the first section of the book delivers a review of how vitamin D deficiency emerged in human populations, and gives a perspective on how humans evolved to maximize the efficiency of production of vitamin D. The second section of the book reviews aspects of vitamin D mechanisms on different immune cells, lung tissue, and genetics that have potential impact on lung disease. The third section follows with chapters on associations of vitamin D with the risk for viral infections, asthma and allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis, and finally, lung cancer with an emphasis on ongoing research and clinical issues and needs for future research in each field. Written by an international group of expert authors, Vitamin D and the Lung: Mechanisms and Disease Associations is an essential text for researchers in the respiratory field and practicing clinicians including internists, pulmonologists, and primary care personnel.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vitamin D and the Lung
Book Subtitle: Mechanisms and Disease Associations
Editors: Augusto A. Litonjua
Series Title: Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-888-7
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61779-887-0Published: 24 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-962-8Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61779-888-7Published: 23 May 2012
Series ISSN: 2197-7372
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 332
Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Internal Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Clinical Nutrition