Magnesium, cardiovascular risk factors and atherosclerosis

Fujioka, Y.; Yokoyama, M.

Clinical Calcium 15(2): 221-225

2005


ISSN/ISBN: 0917-5857
PMID: 15692160
Document Number: 585777
Magnesium plays essential roles in fundamental cellular reaction and physiological regulation of vascularture, nervous system, and organs. Accumulating findings have revealed that magnesium deficiency relates cardiovascular risk factors including elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, platelet aggregation, and inflammatory reaction, and leads to atherosclerosis.

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