Overview
- This book will focus on vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease states
- Discusses recent insights on vitamin D metabolism as well as its association with a diversity of non-skeletal complications, among them cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, cancer, tuberculosis, and immune system dysfunction
- New players in the regulation of vitamin synthesis and degradation have been identified and largely explored in case of CKD including FGF23 and klotho
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Generalities, Measurement and Epidemiology
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Classical Mineral and Bone Effects
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Non-classical Effects of Vitamin D
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pablo URENA TORRES, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Nephrology and Dialysis. Clinique du Landy. 23, rue du Landy. 93400 Saint Ouen, France, and Department of Department of Renal Physiology. Necker Hospital, University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Mario COZZOLINO, M.D. Ph.D.
Department of Health Sciences, Renal Division, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Marc G. VERVLOET, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Nephrology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease
Editors: Pablo A. Ureña Torres, Mario Cozzolino, Marc G. Vervloet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32507-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32505-7Published: 05 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81302-8Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32507-1Published: 21 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 574
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nephrology, Clinical Nutrition, Endocrinology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Health & Hospitals, Pharma