Correction to: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2014) 68, 510–516; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2014.7; published online 12 February 2014

Since the publication of this article the authors have noticed an error in the first sentence of the last paragraph of the results section. The sentence should be:

In addition, five Mg intervention studies (Table 2) reported on the association between Mg supplementation and serum CRP levels.

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused.