Who is especially likely to have magnesium deficiencies?
Magnesium shortage is widespread in people taking “potassium-depleting” prescription diuretics. An extended bout of diarrhea or taking too many laxatives can also cause deficiency. Alcoholism, severe burns, diabetes, and heart failure are other possible causes of deficiency. In a study of urban African-Americans (primarily women), the general prevalence of magnesium insufficiency was 20%. Persons with a history of alcoholism were six times more probable to have magnesium shortage than were people without such a background. The low magnesium level found in alcoholics with liver cirrhosis adds to the development of high blood pressure in these persons. Almost two-thirds of people in intensive care hospital units have been found to be magnesium deficient. Insufficiency may also occur in those with chronic diarrhea, pancreatitis, and other health conditions linked with malabsorption. Fatigue, arrythmia, muscle weakness and contraction, melancholy, loss of appetite, lethargy, and potassium
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