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The Vitamins

Their Role in Medical Practice

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  • © 1985

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  1. John Marks

    1. Girton College, Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • John Marks
      Pages 1-8

  3. General Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Vitamin needs

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      Pages 11-16

    3. Standard recommendations for vitamin intake

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      Pages 17-19

    4. The concept of optimum vitamin nutrition

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      Pages 21-22

    5. Overall causes of vitamin deficiencies

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      Pages 23-24

    6. Vitamin disorders in the Third World

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      Pages 25-27

    7. Vitamin disorders in industrially developed countries

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      Pages 29-34

    8. Clinical manifestations of vitamin deficiencies

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      Pages 35-35

    9. Assessment of vitamin status

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      Pages 37-43

    10. Therapeutic uses of the vitamins

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      Pages 45-53

    11. Vitamin safety

      • John Marks
      Pages 55-57

  4. Practical Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Risk groups and evidence of dietary vitamin inadequacy

      • John Marks
      Pages 61-75

    3. Marginal deficiencies

      • John Marks
      Pages 77-79

    4. Clinical diagnosis of vitamin deficiencies

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      Pages 81-88

    5. Laboratory confirmation of vitamin deficiencies

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      Pages 89-93

    6. Therapeutic index

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      Pages 95-103

    7. Interactions between drugs and vitamins

      • John Marks
      Pages 105-107
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About this book

This book has been designed, as its title implies, as a practical book for medical practitioners, although it should be of interest to medical students and nutritionists. It attempts to provide essential information about this important group of substances rather than be an all embracing monograph on the subject. For this reason biochemical and physiological considera­ tions have been kept to a minimum, and aspects of animal disorders and animal husbandry have not been considered. The material is often presented in a rather dogmatic fashion and, with rare exceptions, references are not included since this makes reading more difficult. The exceptions, where references are provided, are the therapeutic claims, and the series of recent studies which have indicated that vitamin deficiencies are still widely present among certain groups of the population of many industrially developed countries. To add to this reference list there is a reading list which has been selected to give key books, reviews with extensive bibliography and important articles over the past 10 years. From this reading list it is possible to trace most of the literature on the vitamins since they were first described over half a century ago.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Girton College, Cambridge, UK

    John Marks

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Vitamins

  • Book Subtitle: Their Role in Medical Practice

  • Authors: John Marks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7321-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: MTP Press Limited 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-7323-0Published: 09 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7321-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 224

  • Topics: General Practice / Family Medicine, Nutrition, Gastroenterology

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