DRI, Dietary Reference Intakes : Calcium, Vitamin D

DRI, Dietary Reference Intakes : Calcium, Vitamin D / Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium, Food and Nutrition Board ; A. Catharine Ross [and others], editors.

"Calcium and Vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American population is based on the understanding of the health outcomes that calcium and vitamin D affect. It is also important to establish how much of ea...

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Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium
Other Authors: Ross, A. Catharine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011.
Series:Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Calcium in the body.
Vitamin D in the body.
Calcium in human nutrition.
Vitamin D in human nutrition.
Dietary supplements.
Food > Calcium content.
Vitamin D.
Nutrition policy.
Nutrition > Requirements.
MEDICAL > Nutrition.
Vitamin D
Nutrition > Requirements
Nutrition policy
Food > Calcium content
Calcium in human nutrition
Calcium in the body
Dietary supplements
Vitamin D in human nutrition
Vitamin D in the body
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of calcium
  • Overview of vitamin D
  • Review of potential indicators of adequacy and selection of indicators: calcium and vitamin D
  • Dietary reference intakes for adequacy: calcium and vitamin D
  • Tolerable upper intake levels: calcium and vitamin D
  • Dietary intake assessment
  • Implications and special concerns
  • Information gaps and research needs
  • Acronyms, abbreviations, and glossary
  • Issues and interests identified by study sponsors
  • Methods and results from the AHRQ-Ottawa Evidence-based report on effectiveness and safety of vitamin D in relation to bone health
  • Methods and results from the AHRQ-Tufts evidence-based report on vitamin D and calcium
  • Literature search strategy
  • Evidence maps
  • Cases studies of vitamin D toxicity
  • Estimated intakes of calcium and vitamin D from national surveys
  • Proportion of the population above and below 40 nmol/l serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and cumulative distribution of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations: United States and Canada.

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