Clinical Aspects of Natural and Added Phosphorus in Foods

This comprehensive reference covers the impact of dietary phosphorus in phosphorus physiology, public health and the pathogenesis of disease.  Divided into three parts, the first section is an overview of the history of phosphorus and the regulation of phosphorus homeostasis.  The second section focuses on specific matters related to phosphorus in the food supply.  Clinical applications of the material presented in the preceding sections are pulled together in the third section - including the importance of both phosphorus excess and phosphorus deficiency for the pathogenesis of a wide variety of disease including kidney, cardiovascular, bone and oncologic diseases.
Clinical Aspects of Natural and Added Phosphorus in Foods is an indispensable resource for understanding the growing importance of dietary phosphorus content in health and disease, enhancing patient care and moving forward the field of phosphorus science. 

Orlando M. Gutiérrez, MD, MMSc 

Associate Professor

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL  

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PHD, FAAP, FACP, FASN, FAHA, FNKF

Chief, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension

Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Public Health

University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange and Irvine, CA

Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology

Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA

Staff Physician and Principal Investigator

Veterans Affairs (VA) Long Beach Healthcare System?, Long Beach, CA

Rajnish Mehrotra MD, MS

Professor of Medicine

Section Head, Division of Nephrology

Harborview Medical Center

University of Washington

Seattle, WA