Hypomagnesemia as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Morbidity in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Abstract

Although there has been a resurgence of interest in magnesium in recent years, it still unfortunately remains the neglected cation. Magnesium is essential for health and is involved in a great number of crucial physiologic functions. Dialysis patients may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of magnesium deficiency, yet scant if any attention is being given to this cation in most dialysis centers, which should be rectified. In Our study that included sixty ESRD patients on haemodialysis, 30 of them with residual renal function (GFR was 7.8 ± 3.6ml/min) and 30 with no residual renal function and aimed to found whether hypomagnesaemia is an independent risk factor for increased cardiovascular morbidity in hemodialysis patient, we found that