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Intestinal Absorption of Magnesium

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Calcium in Internal Medicine

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The average daily diet in North America contains approximately 228 (adult females) to 323 mg (adult males) of elemental magnesium [1], The recommended daily estimated average requirement for magnesium is 265 and 350 mg for adult females and males, respectively [2,3], This suggests that the average Western country diet is only adequate for maintenance of body magnesium levels. Moreover, magnesium requirements increase with rapid growth in infancy and adolescence and during pregnancy and lactation. Despite the suggestion of borderline dietary insufficiency, overt magnesium deficiency from dietary causes alone is uncommon. This is probably because of the ubiquity of magnesium in most diets, although recent dietary surveys have shown that the average magnesium intake in Western countries has declined over the last 100 years [1].

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  1. 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahi-machi, 545-8585, Abeno-ku Osaka, Japan

    Hirotoshi Morii MD, PhD (Professor Emeritus) & Yoshiki Nishizawa MD, PhD (Professor Emeritus) & 

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    Shaul G. Massry MD (Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine)

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Kerstan, D., Quamme, G.A. (2002). Intestinal Absorption of Magnesium. In: Morii, H., Nishizawa, Y., Massry, S.G. (eds) Calcium in Internal Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0667-8_10

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