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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Corporate Authors: World Health Organization, ebrary, Inc
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, c2009.
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Sumário:
  • 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.