Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

• Main Author: Semba, Richard D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Series: Nutrition and Health
• Subjects: Medicine.; Nutrition.; General practice (Medicine).; Public health.; Clinical nutrition.; Geriatrics.; Ophthalmology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Clinical Nutrition.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

The Handbook of Nutrition in Ophthalmology is the first general text on nutrition and eye health created for physicians, nutritionists, and researchers. Dr. Richard D. Semba provides important links between the epidemic of obesity and implications it has for eye disease and blindness. The volume add...

Table of Contents:

• Nutritional Blindness (Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders)
• Cataract
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• The Obesity Epidemic
• Nutrition and Diabetic Retinopathy
• Retinal Vascular Disease
• Nutritional Amblyopia and B Complex Vitamin Deficiencies
• Zinc and Eye Health
• Vitamin C and Eye Health
• The Age-Related Proinflammatory State and Eye Disease
• Essential Fatty Acids and Visual Development in Infants
• Inborn Errors of Metabolism.