BookRonald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi, editors.
Summary: Magnesium is an essential mineral which is required for growth and survival of humans. Since magnesium is a mineral and not synthesizable it must be obtained through dietary foods and/or supplements. Magnesium in Human Health and Disease reviews the benefits of magnesium supplementation to reach recommended intakes as well as provides new research that suggests how reaching levels above the recommended intakes can promote health and treat various diseases. Magnesium deficiency can cause low serum potassium and calcium levels, retention of sodium, and low circulating levels of regulatory hormones. These changes in nutrients cause neurological and muscular symptoms such as tremor and muscle spasms. Further magnesium deficiency causes loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, personality changes and death from heart failure. Causes of magnesium deficiency include alcohol abuse, poorly controlled diabetes, excessive or chronic vomiting and/or diarrhea. Thus the effects of inadequate and deficient intakes or levels of magnesium is critical to health and are reviewed by the expert clinicians in this book. Magnesium in Human Health and Disease provides the most current research to support the potential benefits or lack thereof for normal and high supplementation with magnesium. Animal model research and early human trials are reviewed to document other disease states such as hypertension, cholesterol level, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease that would benefit from increased magnesium.
Contents:
Part 1.; Introduction and mechanism of action --; Clinical Assessment of Magnesium Status in the Adult: An Overview /; Adel A. A. Ismail, Yasmin Ismail and Abbas A. Ismail --; Dietary Mg Intake and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Endothelial Dysfunction /; Simin Liu and Sara A. Chacko --; Magnesium Role in Cytokine Regulation of Hypoxic Placentas Related to Certain Placental Pathology /; Tamar Eshkoli, Valeria Feinshtein, Alaa Amash, Eyal Sheiner and Mahmoud Huleihel, et al..; Part 2.; Magnesium Status in Disease --; Magnesium Links to Asthma Control /; Alexandra Kazaks --; Magnesium and Kidney Disease /; Ioannis P. Tzanakis and Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos --; Magnesium Intake, Genetic Variants, and Diabetes Risk /; Yiqing Song, Cuilin Zhang, Lu Wang, Qi Dai and Simin Liu --; Magnesium Deficiency in Type 2 Diabetes /; Dharam Paul Chaudhary.; Part 3.; Magnesium Supplementation and Disease --; Magnesium and Metabolic Disorders /; Abigail E. Duffine and Stella Lucia Volpe --; Magnesium and Diabetes Prevention /; Akiko Nanri and Tetsuya Mizoue --; Magnesium Supplementation and Bone /; Hasan Aydin --; Magnesium Salts in a Cancer Patient: Pathobiology and Protective Functions /; Gabriel Wcislo and Lubomir Bodnar.; Part 4.; Cardiovascular Disease and Magnesium --; Magnesium and Hypertension /; Mark Houston --; The Role of Magnesium in the Cardiovascular System /; Michael Shechter and Alon Shechter --; Vascular Biology of Magnesium: Implications in Cardiovascular Disease /; Tayze T. Antunes, Glaucia Callera and Rhian M. Touyz --; Intravenous Magnesium for Cardiac Arrhythmias in Humans: A Role? /; Kwok M. Ho.; Part 5.; Magnesium and Neurological Function --; Magnesium in Inflammation-Associated Fetal Brain Injury /; Christopher Wayock, Elisabeth Nigrini, Ernest Graham, Michael V. Johnston and Irina Burd --; Magnesium and Its Interdependency with Other Cations in Acute and Chronic Stressor States /; Babatunde O. Komolafe, M. Usman Khan, Rami N. Khouzam, Dwight A. Dishmon and Kevin P. Newman, et al. --; Magnesium and Traumatic Brain Injury /; Renée J. Turner and Robert Vink --; Magnesium in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: From Bench to Bedside /; Jack Hou and John H. Zhang --; Magnesium and Alcohol /; Teresa Kokot, Ewa Nowakowska-Zajdel, Malgorzata Muc-Wierzgon and Elzbieta Grochowska-Niedworok.