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Yiying Zhang1,2, Hongbin Qiu3,4
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China. yiyingzhang@hrbmu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
To assess the association between dietary magnesium intake and hyperuricemia in United States (US) adults, we extracted 26,796 US adults aged 20-85 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in 2001-2014. All dietary intake was measured through 24 h dietary recall method. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to investigate the association between magnesium intake and hyperuricemia after adjusting for several important confounding variables. When compared to the lowest quintile (Q1), for male, adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of hyperuricemia in the second quintile (Q2) to the fifth quintile (Q5) of the magnesium intake were 0.83 (95% CI: 0.72-0.95), 0.74 (0.64-0.85), 0.78 (0.67-0.90), and 0.70 (0.58-0.84, p for trend = 0.0003), respectively. For female, OR was 0.75 (0.62-0.90) in the fourth quintile (Q4) (p for trend = 0.0242). As compared to Q4 of magnesium intake (contains recommended amount), the relative odds of hyperuricemia were increased by 1.29 times in Q1 (OR = 1.29, 1.11-1.50) in male. The ORs were 1.33 (1.11-1.61) in Q1, 1.27 (1.07-1.50) in Q2 in female. Our results indicated that increased magnesium intake was associated with decreased hyperuricemia risk. It also indicated the importance of recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of magnesium and the potential function of magnesium intake in the prevention of hyperuricemia.
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