Magnesium in Human Health and Disease (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781493962907)

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 System

Michael Schecter

Alon Schecter

14 Vascular biology of magnesium- implications in cardiovascular disease

Tayze T Antunes

Glaucia Callera

Rhian 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