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28.03.2023

Low magnesium levels will kill you

Men who make sure their magnesium levels are somewhere above average may cut their risk of death in half. A Japanese epidemiological study suggests this.

Study
In 2022, researchers from Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine published a study involving 1314 residents of the region in the Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology. The mean age of the study participants when the study started was 63.

When the project started, the Japanese examined the study participants. They also determined the concentration in the blood of the participants. They then followed the study participants for 10 years. During that period, 7.1 percent of the study participants died.

Results
The average concentration of magnesium in the blood of the study participants was 2.4 milligrams per deciliter. Based on this average, the researchers divided the study participants into 2 groups - a group with more magnesium than the average and a group with less magnesium than the average.

When the Japanese then tracked which study participants died over a period of 10 years, they saw that the study participants in the group with a high magnesium level had a 73 percent lower risk of dying than the study participants in the other group. The researchers brushed aside other factors as far as possible.

Click on the table above for a larger version. He shows that in this study the association between magnesium and mortality was significant in men, and not in women. In men, the risk of death was twice as high in the group with a low magnesium level.

Conclusion
The Japanese admit that they do not know exactly how a low concentration of magnesium in the blood increases the risk of death in men. However, the connection is so strong that the researchers believe that supplementing with magnesium may reduce the risk of death in people with low magnesium levels.

Source:
J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2022;68(4):270-5.

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