Handbook of Vitamin A

ISBN-13: 9783330048324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 80 str.

Nimmathota Arlappa; Saurabh Sharma

Opis

"Let us put sustainable efforts for the elimination of Nutritional Blindness from the globe". Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is the most important cause of preventable childhood nutritional blindness among vulnerable children in the world. VAD also contributes significantly to childhood morbidity and mortality from various infectious diseases particularly from diarrhea, measles, and respiratory infections. This Handbook provides comprehensive information about the sources for Vitamin A, causes for its deficiency, its adverse ocular manifestations, and sustainable strategies for prevention and control of vitamin A deficiency among vulnerable populations. This handbook is useful to the readers like nutritionists, public health persons and academicians.

O autorze

Dr. N. Arlappa has completed MBBS and MD (Community Medicine). He has been working as Nutrition Scientist at National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India. He has 20 years of research experience in the field of Public Health Nutrition and published more than 60 scientific papers.