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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Does Ionized Magnesium Offer a Different Perspective Exploring the Association between Magnesemia and Targeted Cardiovascular Risk Factors?

Vanessa Gagliano, Fabian Schäffeler, Rosaria Del Giorno, Mario Bianchetti, Cesar Fabian Carvajal Canarte, José Joel Caballero Regueira, Luca Gabutti

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Vanessa GaglianoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Clinical Research Unit, Regional Hospital of Bellinzona and Valli, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8372-1406
Fabian SchäffelerFaculty of Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3878-2442
Rosaria Del GiornoFaculty of Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland.
Mario BianchettiFaculty of Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland.
Cesar Fabian Carvajal CanarteDepartment of Internal Medicine, Clinical Research Unit, Regional Hospital of Bellinzona and Valli, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
José Joel Caballero RegueiraDepartment of Internal Medicine, Clinical Research Unit, Regional Hospital of Bellinzona and Valli, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Luca GabuttiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Clinical Research Unit, Regional Hospital of Bellinzona and Valli, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1929-6759
Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale · CHUniversità della Svizzera italiana · CHUniversity Hospital of Lausanne · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence of the association of magnesium (Mg) with arterial stiffness has so far been conflicting. The interplay between hypertension and elevated body mass index (BMI), with hypomagnesemia, instead, has been described in the literature in a more consistent way. Our study aims at revisiting the correlations between blood Mg levels and hemodynamic and body composition parameters in the general population, exploring the sensitivity profile of ionized Mg (Ion-Mg) compared to total Mg (Tot-Mg). We collected data from 755 subjects randomly chosen from a Swiss population previously described and stratified our sample into four equivalent classes according to ionized (whole blood) and total (serum) magnesium. After correcting for age, statistically significant differences emerged between: (i) Tot-Mg ≤ 0.70 and 0.81 ≤ Tot-Mg ≤ 0.90 for cf-PWV (p = 0.039); (ii) Tot-Mg ≤ 0.70 and Tot-Mg ≥ 0.91 for o-PWV (p = 0.046). We also found a statistically significant difference among groups of Ion-Mg values for the 24 h extremes of systolic blood pressure (p = 0.048) and among groups of Tot-Mg for BMI (p = 0.050). Females showed significantly lower levels of total magnesium (p = 0.035) and ionized magnesium (p < 0.001) than males. The overall agreement between magnesium analysis methods was 64% (95%CI: 60.8−67.7%). Our results confirm that Ion-Mg compared with Tot-Mg offers a different profile in detecting both correlations with hemodynamic and body composition parameters and dysmagnesemias. Lower levels of magnesium were associated with worse arterial aging parameters, larger 24 h blood pressure excursions, and higher BMI. Ion-Mg was superior in detecting the correlation with blood pressure only. Considering Ion-Mg as a more specific marker of the magnesium status, and the partially contradictory results of our explorative cross-sectional study, to avoid confounding factors and misinterpretations, ionized magnesium should be used as reference in future studies.

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arterial stiffnessblood pressurebody compositionbody mass index (BMI)ionized magnesiumpulse wave velocity (PWV)total magnesium

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