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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 691-696Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(02)02964-3
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meta-analysis; magnesium supplements; blood pressure
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [K08 HL03857] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [K24 DK02856] Funding Source: Medline
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Background: An increased intake of magnesium might lower blood pressure (BP), yet evidence from clinical trials is inconsistent, perhaps as a result of small sample size or heterogeneity in study design. Methods: We performed a meta-analysis of randomized trials that tested the effects of magnesium supplementation on BP. Twenty trials meeting the inclusion criteria were identified. Random effects models and meta-regression methods were used to pool study results and to determine the dose-response relationship of magnesium to BP. Results: The 20 studies included 14 of hypertensive and 6 of normotensive persons totaling 1220 participants. The doses of magnesium ranged from 10 to 40 mmol/day (median, 15.4 mmol/day). Magnesium supplementation resulted in only a small overall reduction in BP. The pooled net estimates of BP change (95% confidence interval [Cl]) were -0.6 (-2.2 to 1.0) mm Hg for systolic BP and -0.8 (-1.9 to 0.4) mm Hg for diastolic BP. However, there was an apparent dose-dependent effect of magnesium, with reductions of 4.3 mm Hg systolic BP (95% Cl 6.3 to 2.2; P <.001) and of 2.3 mm Hg diastolic BP (95% Cl 4.9 to 0.0; P =.09) for each 10 mmol/day increase in magnesium dose. Conclusions: Our meta-analysis detected dose-dependent BP reductions from magnesium supplementation. However, adequately powered trials with sufficiently high doses of magnesium supplements need to be performed to confirm this relationship.
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