title: Magnesium and the risk of all-cause and cardiac mortality in hemodialysis patients: agent provocateur or innocent bystander?
abstract: There have been previous reports of hypomagnesemia associated with increased cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients. However, these reports were often confounded by hypomagnesemia linked to increased patient co-morbidity. Sakaguchi and colleagues now report increased patient survival, with both reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality for those with mild hypomagnesemia, compared to patients with both normal and low serum magnesium concentrations, and also those with moderate hypomagnesemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Université de Franche-Comté, UMR645, INSERM, Besançon, France.
authors.forename: Cecile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Courivaud
authors.affiliation: Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free Hospital, University College London Medical School, London, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Davenport
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality*; D008274:Magnesium / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D012042:Registries
chemical_list: D008274:Magnesium