Study suggests how to treat diastolic heart failure

Research shows magnesium improves a form of heart failure previously without treatment

Date:

January 10, 2019

Source:

University of Minnesota Medical School

Summary:

New research uncovers what causes diastolic heart failure and how it can be treated.

Research out of University Minnesota Medical School and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight uncovers what causes diastolic heart failure and how it can be treated.

In the article, "Magnesium supplementation improves diabetic mitochondrial and cardiac diastolic function," author Samuel Dudley, MD, PhD, Academic Chief of Cardiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and his fellow researchers found that magnesium can be used to treat diastolic heart failure.

Journal Reference:

1. Man Liu, Euy-Myoung Jeong, Hong Liu, An Xie, Eui Young So, Guangbin Shi, Go Eun Jeong, Anyu Zhou, Samuel C. Dudley. Magnesium supplementation improves diabetic mitochondrial and cardiac diastolic function. JCI Insight, 2019; 4 (1) DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.123182