Vitamins in Medicine

Abstract: An advanced technical text (in 2 volumes) for college medical students and nutrition scientists presents 17 review articles on the integration of historical knowledge and recent findings in the areas of physiological roles of vitamins and the pathology of vitamin deficiency diseases. Fifteen of the articles discuss the discovery, comprehensive metabolic aspects, sources, and disease associations of individual vitamins: vitamins A, B6, B12, (the cobalamins), C, D, E, F (essential fatty acids) K, and P, (the bioflavonoids), and pantothenic acid, folates, biotin, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin. The remaining articles deal with vitamin dietary requirements, recommendations, and intake, and the effects of food processing on vitamins. (wz).