background: several studies have shown that administration of magnesium sulfate prolongs the bleeding time.   objective: to investigate such effects in pregnant women in shiraz, southern iran.   methods: this study was conducted on 30 pregnant women aged between 18 and 32 yrs, with a gestational age of 20 to 37 weeks, who presented to hafez and zeynabiyeh emergency units affiliated to shiraz un...

OBJECTIVE The determination of serum magnesium levels in migraine. METHODS In a case control study performed between January 2007 and December 2007 at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, 140 migraine patients were enrolled and their level of serum magnesium was determined and the results were compared with 140 healthy people who did not have any headache, kidney, or gastroint...

Background: Bilirubin binds to cell membrane phospholipids, including N-methyl D-aspartate receptor, and causes excessive activation that can lead to neurotoxic effects. Since magnesium is an important inhibitor of this receptor, a comparison can be made between the physiological effects of magnesium and the neurological effects of bilirubin. This study aimed to compare changes in serum magnesi...

*Corresponding author: Azar Baradaran, Department of Clinical Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem thought the world and is growing in populations (1). Previously, we studied the correlation of serum lipids with serum magnesium value in diabetes patients in on 122. In this study we ob...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Previous studies suggested an association between low serum magnesium levels and metabolic or cardiovascular disease. Additionally, several studies have shown that low serum magnesium is associated with vascular calcification, but there are no studies exploring its relation to coronary artery calcification (CAC). We investigated the relationship between low serum magnesium a...

DEAR EDITOR, Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major global public health problem in the world-wide and is increasing in aging populations. We previously conducted a study entitled; lipids in association with serum magnesium in DM patients in 2008. In this study, on 122 patients, we found a significant inverse correlations of serum magnesium with serum cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein...

PURPOSE Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients tend to have higher serum magnesium values than healthy population due to their positive balance of magnesium in kidney. Recent studies found that magnesium level is positively correlated with endothelial function. Therefore, this study was conducted to define the relationship between magnesium level and endothelial dysfunction in end stage renal di...

Preterm labour, (PTL) defined as labour after 28 weeks but before 37 completed week of gestation, is an ill omen for our country as the incidence is 5-10% leading to 70-80% of perinatal deaths. Besides varied etiology, it may be due to alteration in basic biochemical functions of the body at cellular level stating emphasis to trace elements, of which magnesium, being one of them, is subject of ...

1. Magnesium metabolism has been studied in forty-eight patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. Metabolic balance studies were undertaken in forty-three untreated patients and in fifteen patients after parathyroidectomy. The data obtained are compared with the pattern of magnesium metabolism in healthy adults, as established by analysis of collected nutritional studies. The renal handling of...

Objective: A magnesium deficiency is known to be involved in many abnormalities in the post-menopausal women. Previous studies proposed that magnesium (Mg) might prevent atherosclerosis. In this study the efficacy of serum magnesium level and its relation with carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) in post-menopausal women was evaluated. Methods: Eighty Iranian Postmenopausal women were included...