Acid-Base Status Affects Renal Magnesium Losses in Healthy, Elderly Persons1

From: The Journal of Nutrition | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Berkemeyer, Shoma; Remer, Thomas; Vormann, JÃ ¼ rgen; Rylander, Ragnar | Copyright information

Abstract

Magnesium and calcium deficiency in humans is related to a number of pathological phenomena such as arrhythmia, osteoporosis, migraine, and fatal myocardial infarction. Clinically established metabolic acidosis induces renal losses of calcium. In normal subjects, even moderate increases in net endogenous acid production (NEAP) impair renal calcium reabsorption but no information is available whether this also influences renal magnesium handling. The aim of the study was to exa...

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