Beschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeSection A - Introduction and mechanism of action 1 Clinical Assessment of Magnesium Status in the Adult: An Overview Adel A. A. Ismail Yasmin Ismail, MD, MRCP Abbas A Ismail, MSc, MD, FRCP 2 Dietary Mg Intake and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Endothelial Dysfunction Simin Liu Sara A. Chacko 3. Magnesium Role in Cytokine Regulation of Hypoxic Placentas Related to Certain Placental Pathology Tamar Eshkoli Valeria Feinshtein Alaa Amash Eyal Sheiner Mahmoud Huleihel Gershon Holcberg Section B Magnesium Status in Disease 4 Magnesium Links to Asthma Control Alexandra Kazaks 5 Magnesium and Kidney Disease Ioannis P Tzanakis Dimitrios G Oreopoulos 6 Magnesium Intake, Genetic Variants, and Diabetes Risk Yiqing Song Cuilin Zhang Lu Wang Qi Dai Simin Liu 7. Magnesium Deficiency in Type 2 Diabetes Dharam Paul Chaudhary Section C Magnesium Supplementation and Disease 8 Magnesium and Metabolic Disorders Abby Duffine Stella Lucia Volpe 9 Magnesium and diabetes prevention Akiko Nanri Tetsuya Mizoue 10 Magnesium Supplementation and Bone Hasan Aydin 11 Protective Functions of Magnesium Salts in Cancer Patients Gabriel Wcislo Lubomir Bodnar Section D Cardiovascular Disease and Magnesium 12 Magnesium and Hypertension Mark Houston 13 The Role of Magnesium in the Cardiovascular System Michael Schecter Alon Schecter 14 Vascular biology of magnesium- implications in cardiovascular disease Tayze T Antunes Glaucia Callera Rhian M Touyz 15 Intravenous Magnesium for Cardiac Arrhythmias in Humans: A Role? Kwok Ho Section F Magnesium and Neurological Function 16 Magnesium in inflammation-associated fetal brain injury Christopher Wayock Elisabeth Nigrini Ernest Graham Michael V. Johnston Irina Burd 17 Magnesium and Its Interdependency with Other Cations in Acute and Chronic Stressor States Babatunde O. Komolafe, MD M. Usman Khan, MD Rami N. Khouzam, MD Dwight A. Dishmon, MD Kevin P. Newman, MD Jesse E. McGee, MD Syamal K. Bhattacharya, PhD Karl T. Weber, MD 18 Magnesium and traumatic brain injury Renee J Turner Robert Vink 19 Magnesium in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - from Bench to Bedside J. H. Zhang Jack Hou 20 Alcohol and Magnesium Teresa Kokot EWA NOWAKOWSKA-ZAJDEL Malgorzata Muc-Wierzgon Elzbieta Grochowska-Niedworok
