Magnesium deficiency - a cardiovascular risk factor 40th Rostock seminar for cardiovascular function and hypertension, Rostock, Germany, June 4, 2011

摘要

The significance of magnesium deficiency is underestimated as a risk factor for several public health related diseases, although the physiological as well as the pathophysi-ological interrelationships are widely distributed and carefully investigated. Although throughout the last 40 years the neuromuscular (tetanic), central nervous, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal symptoms are well known [1, 2, 3]. Too seldom the magnesium deficiency is recognized as an essential differential diagnosis by distinct diseases. This has reasons.