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Dietary magnesium intake is inversely associated with serum C-reactive protein levels: meta-analysis and systematic review

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 69, page 409 (2015)Cite this article

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We appreciate Zeng et al.1 for catching up the typo in our paper. The first sentence of the last paragraph under the result section should read: In addition, five Mg intervention studies (Table 2) reported results on the association between Mg supplementation and serum CRP levels. Anyway, the description of the five intervention studies is correct. In addition, we have mentioned the reasons for not including the intervention studies in the meta-analysis in the discussion section. We noticed that the intervention studies were conducted in different study populations, magnesium supplementation was in different forms (for example, Mg citrate, MgCl2 and MgO), and the dosage and intervention durations were different. This was why we summarized them as the secondary results in support of our main findings in the meta-analysis.

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  1. Zeng C, Li H, Lei G-h . The effect of oral magnesium supplementation on serum C-reactive protein. Eur J Clin Nutr 2015, e-pub ahead of print 7 January 2015; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2014.274.

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    D T Dibaba, P Xun & K He

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Dibaba, D., Xun, P. & He, K. Dietary magnesium intake is inversely associated with serum C-reactive protein levels: meta-analysis and systematic review. Eur J Clin Nutr 69, 409 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2014.275

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