OBJECTIVE To determine whether migraineurs may have a systemic deficiency of magnesium. BACKGROUND Magnesium deficiency has been shown to play a potential role in the pathogenesis of migraine, but there are no data on total body magnesium status in migraineurs. METHODS An oral magnesium load test was performed by giving 3000 mg of magnesium lactate during a 24-hour interictal period to 20 p...

Serum magnesium levels were measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in 46 malnourished and 12 healthy children, aged 3 months to 5 years. The nutritional status of children was classified in relation to weight for age and height for age using the Indian Academy of Pediatrics and the Waterlow classifications, respectively. NCHS data were used for the purposes of comparison. Serum magnesi...

Acute peripheral neuropathy is dose limiting toxicity of oxaliplatin, a wildly used chemotherapeutic drug in colorectal cancer. The present study aimed to identify the relationship between pretreatment serum magnesium concentration and the acute oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy. We enlisted 318 colorectal cancer patients who received adjuvant or first-line oxaliplatin-based chemotherap...

Whether serum magnesium deficiency is independently associated with the prevalence of microalbuminuria is still unclear. The objective of the present study was to elucidate the association between serum magnesium and microalbuminuria in diabetic patients. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 1829 diabetic subjects (aged ≥ 40 years) from Shanghai, China. Subjects were divided into three grou...

The addition of cholesterol and cholic acid to a diet containing 24 mg. percent of magnesium, an amount normally required for young rats, resulted in magnesium deficiency in rats. This was characterized by hyperexcitability, hyperemia of the ears, calcium deposition in the kidney tubules, low serum magnesium levels, and decreased oxidative phosphorylation of heart mitochondria. All these lesion...

The authors compared the antimanic effects of a verapamil-magnesium oxide (V-M) combination with a verapamil-placebo combination (V-P) in patients pretreated with verapamil. BPRS scores and serum magnesium levels were compared. The V-M combination was found to be significantly more effective than V-P in reducing manic symptoms (P=0.015). Serum magnesium levels were significantly higher in the V...

In the first half of the last century tuberculosis was the main focus of attention amongst all respiratory diseases. Bronchial asthma is a serious global health problem. The present study was carried out to estimate magnesium levels in serum in pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchial asthma cases and to compare them with the serum magnesium levels of controls. This study was undertaken in 120 subj...

BACKGROUND A major use of serum magnesium measurements in clinical practice is to identify patients with deficiency. However, numerous studies have shown that magnesium deficiency is common and may be present in over 10% of hospitalized patients, as well as in the general population. An important cause for under diagnosis of deficiency is that serum magnesium, the most commonly used test, can b...

Low serum magnesium has been associated with kidney function decline in persons with diabetes as well as cardiovascular disease in the general population. As the association of serum magnesium with incident kidney disease in the general population is unknown, we assessed this in 13,226 participants (aged 45-65) in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study with baseline estimated glomerular ...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests the involvement of calcium and magnesium metabolism in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia. However, findings from studies are heterogenous and inconsistent. AIM The study aimed to compare the total serum calcium and magnesium levels in preeclamptic women with that of normotensive pregnant women. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional subjects of eighty pregnant...