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4/2024
vol. 26
 
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Recommendations for dispensing magnesium products in pharmacy practice and primary health care

Piotr Merks
1
,
Urszula Religioni
2
,
Marta Jakubowska
3
,
Sainul Abideen Parakkal
4
,
Suhaj Abdulsalim
5
,
Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska
6
,
Beata Chełstowska
7
,
Mazhuvanchery Kesavan Unnikrishnan
8
,
Alicja Szatko
9
,
Piotr Glinicki
9
,
Shabeer Ali Thorakkattil
10
,
Zbigniew Doniec
11
,
Regis Vaillancourt
1
,
Dagmara Hering
12

  1. Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland
  2. School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
  3. Hospital Pharmacy, Loyds Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom
  4. Clinical Pharmacist, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
  5. Department of Pharmacy Practice, Unaizah College of Pharmacy, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia
  6. Department of Palliative Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
  7. Department of Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland
  8. Department of Pharmacy Practice, Nitte Gulabi Shetty Memorial Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mangalore, India
  9. Department of Endocrinology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
  10. Clinical Pharmacist,, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
  11. Pneumonology Clinic, Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Rabka-Zdroj, Poland
  12. Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2024; 26(4): 538–548
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2024.144926
Online publish date: 2024/12/29
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Magnesium is involved in many essential functions in the body, with a deficiency leading to possible cardiological, metabolic, neurological and rheumatological diseases, among others. The results of studies on the relationships between the occurrence of these diseases and magnesium deficiency helped identify the groups of patients who could benefit from this element.

Considering the high frequency of patients using community pharmacy services, pharmacists present a group of medical professionals that can readily diagnose a potential magnesium deficiency in a relatively easy manner and can recommend supplementation in the diet or magnesium deficiency treatment with medicinal products when there are symptoms. For this reason, the objective of this article is to suggest procedures that can be used to identify patients particularly susceptible to magnesium deficiency. The second objective is to create Figures for the management of patients suffering from disorders that, in accordance with current knowledge, are associated with magnesium deficiency. In this context, guidelines were developed to help identify magnesium deficiency in patients with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, migraines, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety states or hypertension.

Appropriate supplementation with magnesium and magnesium deficiency treatment in the indicated target groups can largely minimize the symptoms of the diseases and increase patient wellbeing.
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magnesium, magnesium deficiency, pharmaceutical services

  
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