Calcium and magnesium in drinking-water public health significance.
This book addresses whether or not calcium and magnesium ('hardness') in drinking water can contribute to preventing disease. It includes a comprehensive consensus view on what is known and what is not about the role and possible health benefit of calcium and magnesium in drinking-water. A...
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Geneva, Switzerland :
World Health Organization,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Expert consensus
- Overview of global dietary calcium and magnesium intakes and allowances / S.A. Atkinson, R Costello and J.M. Donohue
- The mineral composition of water and its contribution to calcium and magnesium intake / C.N. Ong, A.C. Grandjean and R.P. Heaney
- Identifying magnesium deficiency : a diagnostic dilemma / R.J. Elin
- Magnesium deficiency : clinical and experimental aspects / W.B. Weglicki
- Magnesium and hypertension / R.M. Touyz and B. Sontia
- Atherosclerosis and magnesium / B.M. Altura and B.T. Altura
- Health significance of calcium and magnesium : examples from human studies / G.F. Combs, Jr and F.H. Nielson
- Calcium and magnesium : role of drinking-water in relation to bone metabolism / C.M. Weaver and J.W. Nieves
- Epidemiological studies and the association of cardiovascular disease risks with water hardness / R. Calderon and P. Hunter
- Alternative hypotheses and knowledge gaps / J.K. Fawell
- Water production, technical issues and economics / P. Regunathan.
Calcium and magnesium in drinking-water public health significance.