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Intracellular magnesium predicts functional capacity in patients with coronary artery disease
M Shechter1, M J Paul-Labrador, R K Rude
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif., USA.shechterm@csmc.edu
Abstract:
To determine whether increased intracellular levels of magnesium ([Mg]i) are associated with enhanced functional capacity, we performed symptom-limited exercise treadmill testing on 42 stable coronary artery disease (CAD) patients (37 men, 5 women, mean age 68 +/- 9 years). [Mg]i was found to be an independent and significant predictor of exercise duration (R = 0.31, p = 0.02) in a multivariate stepwise regression model. Patients with > normal [Mg]i of 1.23 microg/mg protein (n = 13) had a significantly greater mean functional capacity, measured in higher achieved metabolic equivalents (10.6 +/- 2.5 vs. 8.9 +/- 2.3, p < 0.05) and exercise duration (9.4 +/- 2.3 vs. 7.9 +/- 2.2 min, p < 0.05) compared to patients with [Mg]i