100 mg/d dietary magnesium intakes reduce cancer mortality

Objectives:
Do magnesium intakes reduce risk of all-cause, cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality?

Study design:
This review article included 19 prospective cohort studies with a total of 1,168,756 participants (52,378 deaths from all causes (all-cause mortality), 23,478 from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and 11,408 from cancer).
The follow-up period was 3.5 to 32 years.

Results and conclusions:
The investigators found dietary magnesium intake was significantly associated with a lower risk of 13% for all-cause mortality [pooled effect size (ES) = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.79 to 0.97, p = 0.009, I2 = 70.7%, p 0.001].

The investigators found dietary magnesium intake was significantly associated with a lower risk of 20% for cancer mortality [pooled ES = 0.80, 95% CI = 0.67 to 0.97, p = 0.023, I2 = 55.7%, p = 0.027].

The investigators found for supplemental and total magnesium intakes, no significant associations with risks of all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality.

The investigators found, however, linear dose-response meta-analysis indicated that each additional intake of 100 mg/d of dietary magnesium was significantly associated with a 6% and 5% reduced risk of all-cause and cancer mortality, respectively.

The investigators concluded that higher intake of dietary magnesium (at least 100 mg/d of dietary magnesium) is associated with a reduced risk of all-cause and cancer mortality, but not cardiovascular disease mortality. Supplemental and total magnesium intakes are not associated with the risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality. These findings indicate that consumption of magnesium from dietary sources may be beneficial in reducing all-cause and cancer mortality and thus have practical importance for public health.  

Original title:
Total, Dietary, and Supplemental Magnesium Intakes and Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies by Bagheri A, Naghshi S, […], Esmaillzadeh A.

Link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33684200/

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