1st Edition
Revival: Vitamins In Human Biology and Medicine (1981)
Edited By Michael Briggs
Copyright 1981
262 Pages
by
CRC Press
262 Pages
by
CRC Press
262 Pages
by
CRC Press
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It is the purpose of this book to try to offer a modern perspective on the importance of vitamins in human biology and medicine.
There have been recent revivals of attempts to use vitamins as therapeutic agents by administering doses many times the recommended allowance. This use or 'megavitamin therapy' is reviewed by Dr. Reynold Spector, with particular emphasis on vitamin entry to the... Read more
Chapter 1
Laboratory Tests for the Assessment of Vitamin Nutritional Status
Chapter 2
Oral Contraceptives and Vitamin Status
Chapter 3
Vitamin Status of the Elderly
Chapter 4
Effects on Plasma Cholesterol of Nicotinic Acid and its Analogues
Chapter 5
Plasma Lipids and Vitamin C
Chapter 6
Thiamin and the Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Chapter 7
Megavitamin Therapy and the Central Nervous System
Chapter 8
Retinoic Acid in Dermatology
Chapter 9
Clinical Toxicology of Vitamins
Index
Biography
Michael H. Briggs is Professor of Human Biology at Deakin University , Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
