Handbook of Clinical Nutrition
Clinicians' Manual of Diagnosis and Management of Nutrition Problems
3rd Edition
Published on 1. August 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-8151-9274-9 (ISBN)
Description
This new reference covers dietary aspects of disease prevention, nutritional support of hospitalized patients, basic information on nutrient functions, and nutritional needs throughout life. It offers rapid access to key information through a disease-oriented approach, detailed table of contents, comprehensive index and numerous tables. This edition contains new chapters on AIDS, transplantation, and disease prevention and health promotion. Revisions include current RDA updates, and expanded chapters on childhood and adolescence, aging, gastrointestinal conditions, obesity, cardiovascular disease and metabolic bone disease.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
St Louis
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustd
Dimensions
Height: 187 mm
Width: 110 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8151-9274-9 (9780815192749)
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New editions
Douglas C. Heimburger | Jamy Ard
Handbook of Clinical Nutrition
Book
02/2006
4th Edition
Mosby
€45.87
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Content
Health promotion and disease prevention; nutrients - metabolism, requirements and sources; childhood and adolescence; ageing; hospital-associated malnutrition; nutritional assessment; nutritional support - general approach and complications; the nutrition support team; therapeutic diets; enteral nutrition; parental nutrition; drug-nutrient interactions; obesity; diabetes; hypertension; cardiovascular disease; cancer; gastrointestinal and liver diseases; critical illness; pulmonary disease; renal failure; nutritional anemias; eating disorders; metabolic bone disease; nutrition, immunity, and AIDS; nutrition in organ transplantation.