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      Higher Levels of Magnesium and Lower Levels of Calcium in Whole Blood Are Positively Correlated with the Metabolic Syndrome in a Chinese Population: A Case-Control Study

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          Magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca) are essential for numerous kinds of metabolisms in human body. To investigate the associations between Mg and Ca and the ratio of Ca to Mg (Ca/Mg) in whole blood with metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a Chinese population, a matched case-control study including 204 MetS patients and 204 healthy controls (aged 48-89) was carried out in 2011. MetS were diagnosed according to the criteria of Chinese Diabetes Society. Controls had no abnormal metabolic components and were matched with cases by age, gender and region. Blood samples were collected in the morning after an overnight fast. Whole blood Mg and Ca were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. Subjects who were male constituted 44.1% of the part of this study. The average age was 64.0 ± 7.18, and the average body mass index was 24.3 ± 3.75. The MetS group showed significantly higher Mg and lower Ca and Ca/Mg as compared with the control group. Comparing with the bottom tertile (T1) of Mg, increased ORs for MetS were found in median tertile (T2) and top tertile (T3) of Mg. For Ca, T2 and T3 were negatively associated with MetS. Inverse relationship was also found between Ca/Mg ratio and MetS. Our findings suggested that increased Mg and decreased Ca and Ca/Mg in whole blood were correlated with MetS in Chinese adults.

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              To examine whether and to what extent intakes of calcium and vitamin D are related to the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged or older women. We analyzed data from 10,066 women aged > or =45 years participating in the Women's Health Study who were free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, or diabetes and who never used postmenopausal hormones. We used multiple logistic regression models to estimate multivariable odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs comparing different dietary intake levels of calcium and vitamin D. In age- and calorie-adjusted analyses, higher intakes of total, dietary, and supplemental calcium were significantly and inversely associated with the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. After further adjusting for smoking status, exercise, alcohol intake, multivitamin use, and parental history of myocardial infarction before age 60 years, the ORs of having the metabolic syndrome for increasing quintiles of total calcium intake were 1.00 (reference), 0.82 (95% CI 0.70-0.97), 0.84 (0.71-0.99), 0.70 (0.59-0.83), and 0.64 (0.54-0.77) (P for trend <0.0001). This association was not appreciably altered by additional adjustment for other dietary factors or total vitamin D intake. In contrast, neither total (P for trend = 0.13) nor supplemental (P for trend = 0.45) vitamin D was significantly associated with metabolic syndrome. Dietary vitamin D was inversely associated with prevalence of metabolic syndrome but was not independent of total calcium intake. Similar strong relations between intakes of dairy products and metabolic syndrome were also observed. After adjustment for lifestyle and dietary factors, the multivariable ORs comparing highest with lowest intake categories were 0.66 (0.55-0.80) (P for trend <0.0001) for total dairy products and 0.85 (0.71-1.02) (P for trend = 0.05) for total milk intake. Our results indicate that intakes of calcium and dairy products may be associated with lower prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged and older women.
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                Journal
                ANM
                Ann Nutr Metab
                10.1159/issn.0250-6807
                Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
                Ann Nutr Metab
                S. Karger AG (Basel, Switzerland karger@ 123456karger.com http://www.karger.com )
                0250-6807
                1421-9697
                November 2016
                18 October 2016
                : 69
                : 2
                : 125-134
                Affiliations
                aDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and bCenter for Experimental Teaching, Zhejiang University School of Public Health, cDepartment of Pathology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and dDepartment of Nutrition and Food Safety, Hangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, and eDepartment of Endocrinology and Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhejiang Putuo Hospital, Zhoushan, China
                Author notes
                *Yimin Zhu, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Zhejiang University School of Public Health, 866 Yu-Hang-Tang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058 (China), E-Mail zhuym@zju.edu.cn
                Article
                450761 Ann Nutr Metab 2016;69:125-134
                10.1159/000450761
                27750224
                227fca59-61fb-41da-9922-3b8eca653087
                © 2016 S. Karger AG, Basel

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                History
                : 22 February 2016
                : 10 September 2016
                Page count
                Figures: 1, Tables: 5, References: 76, Pages: 10
                Categories
                Original Paper

                Medicine,General social science
                Metabolic syndrome,Ca to Mg ratio,Calcium,Magnesium
                Medicine, General social science
                Metabolic syndrome, Ca to Mg ratio, Calcium, Magnesium

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