Hypertension, stroke and thrombosis: how dangerous magnesium deficiency is

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Magnesium is one of the most important elements for human health. It performs many functions: it has a beneficial effect on bone growth and psycho-emotional state, normalizes heart rhythm, regulates the exchange of potassium and calcium, reduces the risk of developing many diseases.

Experts claim that many people do not know about magnesium deficiency, so as at the initial stage this condition does not manifest itself in any way. However, the consequences of a deficiency can be very serious. Scientists talked about them in one of the reviews.

So, among the most dangerous consequences of magnesium deficiency, they singled out:

• hypertension;
• arrhythmia;

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• ischemic heart disease;
• atherosclerosis;
• heart failure;
• increased platelet reactivity and thrombosis;
• myocardial infarction;
• stroke.

The researchers also noted that in the treatment of magnesium deficiency, the minimum dose that should be taken is 600 mg per day. Therapy lasts more than one month, and then continues with a dose that maintains the level of magnesium in the blood serum at an appropriate level.

The recommendations of the National Health Service of Great Britain, in turn, say that men aged from 19 to 64-year-olds need 300 mg of magnesium per day, and women of the same age need 270 mg of magnesium per day.