Folate in Health and Disease, Second Edition (Clinical Nutrition in Health and Disease)

Keeping up with the explosion in information garnered from a wealth of new research, this volume provides an up-to-date resource on new areas of clinical interest related to folate metabolism. Such areas include the role of folate in birth defects, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neural tube defects. This edition includes new material relating folate to neurological function as well as a chapter on folate-gene interactions. Of direct use to clinicians, the book presents the latest research on folate intake and discusses dietary recommendations for health maintenance and disease prevention. It includes estimates of dietary folate intake for the US population and specific population subgroups.Bailey, Lynn B. is the author of 'Folate in Health and Disease, Second Edition (Clinical Nutrition in Health and Disease)', published 2009 under ISBN 9781420071245 and ISBN 1420071246.