Dietary magnesium intake is inversely associated with serum C-reactive protein levels: meta-analysis and systematic review.

D T Dibaba, P Xun, K He

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Article in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

DASH Dietary Pattern and Cardiometabolic Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Nutrients · 2019
Pooled it
[Prevalence and associated factors of hyperuricemia in patients with type 2 diabetes in hospital settings in Dakar, Senegal].The Pan African medical journal · 2025
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Magnesium depletion score and gout: insights from NHANES data.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024
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Functional Food Based on Potato.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Review
Nut intake and hyperuricemia risk in young adults.Public health nutrition · 2021
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Direct and indirect associations between dietary magnesium intake and breast cancer risk.Scientific reports · 2019
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Serum magnesium and risk of incident heart failure in older men: The British Regional Heart Study.European journal of epidemiology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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Dietary magnesium intake is inversely associated with serum C-reactive protein levels: meta-analysis and systematic review.2014
Comment on
Dietary magnesium and inflammation.2014

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

D T DibabaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

P XunDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

K HeDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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DietC-Reactive ProteinHumansMagnesiumC-Reactive ProteinMagnesium

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PMID24939435

DOI10.1038/ejcn.2014.111

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