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Links to articles about magnesium (List C)

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CLUSTER HEADACHES,
COCAINE-RELATED STROKE,
CONSTIPATION,
CRAMPS,
DIABETES,
FIBROMYALGIA,
FLUORIDE TOXICITY,
HEAD INJURIES, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIES,
HEART-RELATED CONDITIONS

• CLUSTER HEADACHES
  • Intravenous magnesium sulfate relieves cluster headaches in patients with low serum ionized magnesium levels. ...
  • MAGNESIUM ARTICLE
• COCAINE-RELATED STROKE
  • Cocaine induces rapid loss of intracellular free Mg²⁺ in cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells.
• CONSTIPATION
  • Therapeutic availability of iron administered orally as the ferrous gluconate together with magnesium-L-aspartate hydrochloride.
  • Comparison of the effects of magnesium hydroxide and a bulk laxative on lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins A and E, and minerals in geriatric hospital patients in the treatment of constipation.
  • Constipation (LEF)
  • Foods that Heal * Magnesium *
  • Milk of Magnesia or Epsom Salt
  • Constipation in elderly long-stay patients: its treatment by magnesium hydroxide and bulk-laxative.
• CRAMPS
  • Schwimmverein Limmat Zürich Woher kommen meine Beinkrämpfe und was kann ich dagegen tun?
    I have leg cramps: Why and what can I do?
  • The effect of oral magnesium substitution on pregnancy-induced leg cramps and Leg Cramps At Night
  • Most common muscle cramps occur at night and affect the legs, especially the calf muscles, and the feet. Muscle cramping is most commonly caused by an imbalance in the levels of calcium and magnesium in the body and/or a deficiency of vitamin E.
  • Muscle Cramps Research Diet & Lifestyle Magnesium - a natural remedy for muscle cramps
• DIABETES
  • Diabetes and Magnesium: The Emerging Role of Oral Magnesium Supplementation
  • The effect of magnesium supplementation in increasing doses on the control of type 2 diabetes.
  • Relief of neuropathic pain with intravenous magnesium
  • Magnesium levels may predict risk of type 2 disease
  • Magnesium and potassium in diabetes and carbohydrate metabolism . Review of the present status and recent results.
  • Magnesium and carbohydrate metabolism
  • Disorders of magnesium metabolism
  • Magnesium and glucose homeostasis
  • Rationales for micronutrient supplementation in diabetes
  • Effect of moderate improvement in metabolic control on magnesium and lipid concentrations in patients with type 1 diabetes.
  • Are low magnesium levels in type 1 diabetes associated with electromyographical signs of polyneuropathy?
  • Magnesium and potassium supplementation in the prevention of diabetic vascular disease.
• FIBROMYALGIA
  • Mystery Illnesses: An In-Depth Look At Fibromyalgia
  • LADYMISST'S FIBROMYALGIA PAGE!!!
  • Treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome with Super Malic®; A Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled, Crossover Pilot Study
  • Management of Fibromyalgia: Rationale for the Use of Magnesium and Malic Acid
• FLUORIDE TOXICITY
  • Magnesium and Fluoride
  • Fluoride ...Magnesium in biological interaction with fluorides.
  • The Question of Fluoride
• HEAD INJURIES and CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIES
  • Regulation of intracellular free magnesium in central nervous system injury.
• HEART-RELATED
  • Magnesium deficiency and sudden death
  • Studies of Minerals and Cardiac Health in Selected Populations, Floyd J. Frost
  • Myocardial injury in magnesium deficiency
  • Minerals, Coronary Heart Disease and Sudden Coronary Death
  • The Case for Intravenous Magnesium Treatment of Arterial Disease in General Practice: Review of 34 Years of Experience
  • Intravenous Magnesium in Arterial Disease, S. E. Browne
  • Minimum Magnesium Standard for Drinking and Bottled Water Would Save 150,000 Lives Annually This article is by Bill Sardi and appeared in the May 1999 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. *WATER*
  • Oral Magnesium for Cardiac Arrhythmias: Current Clinical Perspective
  • Lone Atrial Fibrillation
  • The Role of Magnesium in the Prevention of Coronary Disease and Other Disorders "Magnesium deficiency is very common in this country and may be the single most correctable factor to prevent heart and other diseases."
  • "Calculations of American Deaths Caused by Magnesium Deficiency, As Projected From International Data" A summary of what Mg does for you, suitable for both laymen and professionals.
  • Serum magnesium and ischaemic heart disease: findings from a national sample of US adults.
  • Magnesium Disorders and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • "Cardio-protective Contribution of Hard Waters to Magnesium Intake" by J. R. Marier. The abstract for this paper says "The present article reviews the evidence in favor of the magnesium hypothesis, with emphasis on differentiating between diet-derived and waterborne magnesium intake, and their respective cardio-protective potentials." *WATER*
  • Prenatal and Genetic Magnesium Deficiency in Cardiomyopathy: Possible Vitamin and Trace Mineral Interactions; Childhood Nutrition, F Lifshitz, ed. Boca Raton, FL 1995, Chapt 17:197-224
  • Cardiovascular Consequences of Magnesium Deficiency and Loss: Pathogenesis, Prevalence and Manifestations--Magnesium and Chloride Loss in Refractory Potassium Repletion; American Journal of Cardiology 63:4G-21G, 1989.
  • Magnesium in drinking water and ischemic heart disease. --Medline abstract. *WATER*
  • Heart disease and Magnesium deficiency --some excerpts from Medline abstracts.
  • Pattern of cardiac fibrosis in rabbits periodically fed a magnesium-restricted diet and administered rare earth chloride through drinking water.
  • Magnesium and the cardiovascular system; I: New experimental data on magnesium and lipoproteins.
  • Magnesium and cardiovascular system. II. Clinical data. A critical review.
  • Magnesium in Drinking Water and Death from Acute Myocardial Infarction *WATER*
  • Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Magnesium: Relationships to Atherosclerosis, Ischemic Heart Disease and Hypertension *WATER*
  • Magnesium and deaths ascribed to ischaemic heart disease in South Africa *WATER*
  • Quantifying the Role of Magnesium in the Interrelationship between Human Mortality/Morbidity and Water Hardness *WATER*
  • Dietary magnesium and prediction of heart disease *WATER*
  • Municipal water softening and mortality rates of heart disease in Iowa *WATER*
  • Prevalence and Pathological Changes of ischaemic heart-disease in a hard-water and in a soft-water area *WATER*
  • Effect of Dietary Magnesium Supplementation in the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death *WATER*
  • Magnesium, Water Hardness, and Heart Disease *WATER*
  • Municipal Drinking Water and Cardiovascular Death Rates *WATER*
  • Drinking Water Quality and Sudden Death: Observations from West and East Finland *WATER*
  • Water Hardness and Cardiovascular Mortality *WATER*
  • Ischemic heart disease, water hardness and myocardial magnesium *WATER*
  • Magnesium and calcium in drinking water and cardiovascular mortality *WATER*
  • Heart Becomes Irritable When Deprived of Magnesium Too much calcium, not enough magnesium, by Bill Sardi
  • Geographic Variation in the Incidence of Myocardial Calcification Associated With Acute Myocardial Infarction *WATER*
  • On the Relationship Between Water Hardness and Death Rate in Cardiovascular Diseases. (This was written in 1965 and the authors do not yet know what factor in hard water protects against heart disease.) *WATER*
  • The Second Leicester Intravenous Magnesium Intervention Trial (LIMIT-2)
  • Herzinfarktinzidenz und Mineralgehalt des Trinkwassers *WATER*
  • Magnesium in cardioplegia: Is it necessary?
  • Concentrations of magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium in human heart muscle after acute myocardial infarction.
  • Magnesium flux during and after open heart operations in children.
  • Magnesium content of erythrocytes in patients with vasospastic angina
  • Variant angina due to deficiency of intracellular magnesium
  • Magnesium and sudden death
  • Magnesium deficiency produces spasms of coronary arteries : Relationship to etiology of sudden death ischemic heart disease
  • Magnesium deficiency produces insulin resistance and increased thromboxane synthesis
  • Mg²⁺-Ca²⁺ interaction in contractility of vascular smooth muscle: Mg2+ versus organic calcium channel blockers on myogenic tone and agonist-induced responsiveness of blood vessels
  • The case for intravenous magnesium treatment of arterial disease in general practice: Review of 34 years of experience
  • [Overview-- suppression effect of essential trace elements on arteriosclerotic development and its mechanism]
  • Magnesium in acute myocardial infarction: still an open question.
  • Mechanisms of in vitro cardioprotective action of magnesium on the aging myocardium.
  • Intravenous magnesium therapy in acute myocardial infarction.
  • Significance of magnesium in congestive heart failure.
  • The relationship between calcium and magnesium in pediatric myocardial protection.
  • Oral Magnesium in Coronary Artery Disease: Fresh Insight on Thrombus Inhibition
  • Magnesium status and risk of coronary artery disease in rural and urban populations with variable magnesium consumption.
  • Effect of magnesium on the monophasic action potential during early ischemia in the in vivo human heart.
  • Effect of magnesium sulphate in patients with unstable angina. A double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
  • Cardiovasoprotective foods and nutrients: possible importance of magnesium intake.
  • Should You Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack? by Joel M. Kauffman.
  • Effect of dietary magnesium supplementation in the prevention of coronary heart disease and sudden cardiac death.
  • Magnesium and Certain Other Elements and Cardiovascular Disease (This is 30 pages long, with 15 tables and 4 figures, so expect it to be a little slow to load.)
  • Nutritional and Epidemiologic Factors Related to Heart Disease (This is 30 pages long, with 15 tables and 5 figures, so expect it to be a little slow to load.)
  • Benefits of Magnesium
  • Rationale and design of the magnesium in coronaries (MAGIC) study: A clinical trial to reevaluate the efficacy of early administration of magnesium in acute myocardial infarction. The MAGIC Steering Committee

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