Response to Lowered Magnesium in Hypertension

Abstract

We are grateful to Professors Kisters and Grober1 for the appraisal of our article on low urinary magnesium excretion, an indicator of dietary magnesium uptake, as a risk factor for developing hypertension. We also very much appreciate the efforts of Professors Kisters and Grober1 to further substantiate the importance of magnesium deficiency as an important health problem by mentioning existing evidence on associations of magnesium deficiency with increased pulse pressure and low magnesium intake with increased risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus.1 In extension hereof, we would like to add our recent finding that low urinary excretion of magnesium, reflecting low intestinal …