Magnesium in Human Health and Disease

Section A - Introduction and mechanism of action 1 Clinical Assessment of Magnesium Status in the Adult: An Overview Adel A. A. Ismail Yasmin Ismail, MD, MRCP Abbas A Ismail, MSc, MD, FRCP 2 Dietary Mg Intake and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Endothelial Dysfunction Simin Liu Sara A. Chacko 3. Magnesium Role in Cytokine Regulation of Hypoxic Placentas Related to Certain Placental Pathology Tamar Eshkoli Valeria Feinshtein Alaa Amash Eyal Sheiner Mahmoud Huleihel Gershon Holcberg Section B - Magnesium Status in Disease 4 Magnesium Links to Asthma Control Alexandra Kazaks 5 Magnesium and Kidney Disease Ioannis P Tzanakis Dimitrios G Oreopoulos 6 Magnesium Intake, Genetic Variants, and Diabetes Risk Yiqing Song Cuilin Zhang Lu Wang Qi Dai Simin Liu 7. Magnesium Deficiency in Type 2 Diabetes Dharam Paul Chaudhary Section C - Magnesium Supplementation and Disease 8 Magnesium and Metabolic Disorders Abby Duffine Stella Lucia Volpe 9 Magnesium and diabetes prevention Akiko Nanri Tetsuya Mizoue 10 Magnesium Supplementation and Bone Hasan Aydin 11 Protective Functions of Magnesium Salts in Cancer Patients Gabriel Wcislo Lubomir Bodnar Section D - Cardiovascular Disease and Magnesium 12 Magnesium and Hypertension Mark Houston 13 The Role of Magnesium in the Cardiovascular SystemMichael Schecter Alon Schecter 14 Vascular biology of magnesium- implications in cardiovascular disease Tayze T AntunesGlaucia CalleraRhian M Touyz 15 Intravenous Magnesium for Cardiac Arrhythmias in Humans: A Role? Kwok Ho Section F - Magnesium and Neurological Function 16 Magnesium in inflammation-associated fetal brain injury Christopher Wayock Elisabeth Nigrini Ernest Graham Michael V. Johnston Irina Burd 17 Magnesium and Its Interdependency with Other Cations in Acute and Chronic Stressor States Babatunde O. Komolafe, MD M. Usman Khan, MD Rami N. Khouzam, MD Dwight A. Dishmon, MD Kevin P. Newman, MD Jesse E. McGee, MD Syamal K. Bhattacharya, PhD Karl T. Weber, MD 18 Magnesium and traumatic brain injury Renee J Turner Robert Vink 19 Magnesium in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - from Bench to Bedside J. H. Zhang Jack Hou 20 Alcohol and Magnesium Teresa Kokot EWA NOWAKOWSKA-ZAJDEL Malgorzata Muc-Wierzgon Elzbieta Grochowska-Niedworok