Interrelationship of magnesium and congestive heart failure.
Congestive heart failure is a most arrhythmogenic disease that is responsible for many unexpected sudden deaths. Reduction of sudden cardiac death rates among patient populations receiving long-term diuretic therapy, when given potassium- and magnesium-sparing diuretics as well as magnesium supplements, substantiates the premise that maintenance of adequate magnesium status is important in the prevention and management of cardiovascular diseases that predispose to congestive heart failure.
Seelig
M S
MS
American College of Nutritrion, Decatur, Georgia 30033-2677, USA. MgSeelig@mindspring.com
D000818:Animals; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004036:Diet, Atherogenic; D004232:Diuretics / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008274:Magnesium / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008275:Magnesium Deficiency / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*
D004232:Diuretics; D008274:Magnesium