Comprehensive And Authoritative, Calcium In Human Health Often Health Professionals And Researchers A Vast Amount Of Current Information On The Sources, Biological Function, Interactions, And Disease Implications Of Calcium, A Critical Benchmark Resource For Improving The Health Outcomes Of Individuals, Finding New Drugs That Alter The Function Of The Extracellular Calcium Receptor, Setting Adequate Dietary Requirements, And Developing New Disease-prevention Programs.--book Jacket. Bone As The Calcium Nutrient Reserve / Robert P. Heaney -- Cellular Functions And Fluxes Of Calcium / Emmanuel M. Awumey And Richard D. Bukoski -- Nutritional Epidemiology / Carol J. Boushey -- Clinical Approaches For Studying Calcium Metabolism And Its Relationship To Disease / Connie M. Weaver -- Kinetic Studies / Meryl E. Wastney, Yongdong Zhao, And Connie M. Weaver -- Requirements For What Endpoint / Robert P. Heaney -- Dietary Calcium: Recommendations And Intakes Around The World / Anne C. Looker -- Food Sources, Supplements, And Bioavailability / Connie M. Weaver And Robert P. Heaney -- The Calcium Economy / Robert P. Heaney -- Molecular Regulation Of Calcium Metabolism / James C. Fleet -- Influence Of Total Diet On Calcium Homeostasis / Zamzam K. (fariba) Roughead -- Influence Of Lifestyle Choices On Calcium Homeostasis : Smoking, Alcohol, And Hormone Therapies / D. Lee Alekel And Oksana Matvienko -- Influence Of Physical Activity On Calcium And Bone / Matthew Vukovich And Bonny Specker -- The Case For A Calcium Appetite In Humans / Michael G. Tordoff -- Infancy And Childhood / Steven A. Abrams And Keli M. Hawthorne -- Pre-puberty And Adolescence / Connie M. Weaver -- Calcium In Pregnancy And Lactation / Heidi J. Kalkwarf -- Calcium In Systemic Human Health / Robert P. Heaney -- Calcium And Oral Health / Elizabeth A. Krall -- Dietary Calcium And Obesity / Dorothy Teegarden -- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome And Reproduction / Susan Thys-jacobs -- Premenstrual Syndrome / Susan Thys-jacobs -- Calcium In The Later Years : Osteoporosis / Bess Dawson-hughes -- Calcium, Vitamin D, And Cancer / Peter R. Holt -- Dietary Calcium And The Metabolic Syndrome / Dorothy Teegarden -- Calcium And Phosphate Control In Patients With Renal Disease / David A. Mccarron And Robert P. Heaney -- Hypertension And Cardiovascular Disease / David A. Mccarron. Edited By Connie M. Weaver And Robert P. Heaney ; Foreword By Lawrence G. Raisz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.