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Main description:
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:
Section 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
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: September, 2012
Pages: 332
Weight: 850g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Medicine, Neuroscience, Nutrition, Public Health
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