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Descriptor English: Magnesium Deficiency
Descriptor Spanish: Deficiencia de Magnesio
Descriptor deficiencia de magnesio
Scope note: Enfermedad nutricional producida por un déficit de magnesio en la dieta, caracterizada por anorexia, nausea, vomitos, letargo y debilidad. Los síntomas son parestesias, calambres musculares, irritabilidad, intervalo de atención disminuído y confusión mental, requiriendo, posiblemente, meses para aparecer. El déficit de magnesio en el organismo puede existir aún cuando los valores en suero sean normales. Además, el déficit de magnesio puede ser selectivo por órganos, ya que ciertos tejidos se tornan deficitarios antes que otros.
Descriptor Portuguese: Deficiência de Magnésio
Descriptor French: Magnésium, carence
Entry term(s): Deficiencies, Magnesium
Deficiency, Magnesium
Magnesium Deficiencies
Tree number(s): C18.654.521.500.439
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008275
Scope note: A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of magnesium in the diet, characterized by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, and weakness. Symptoms are paresthesias, muscle cramps, irritability, decreased attention span, and mental confusion, possibly requiring months to appear. Deficiency of body magnesium can exist even when serum values are normal. In addition, magnesium deficiency may be organ-selective, since certain tissues become deficient before others. (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 12th ed, p1936)
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Entry Version: MAGNESIUM DEFIC
DeCS ID: 8449
Unique ID: D008275
NLM Classification: WD 105
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Magnesium Deficiency - Preferred
Concept UI M0012886
Scope note A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of magnesium in the diet, characterized by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, and weakness. Symptoms are paresthesias, muscle cramps, irritability, decreased attention span, and mental confusion, possibly requiring months to appear. Deficiency of body magnesium can exist even when serum values are normal. In addition, magnesium deficiency may be organ-selective, since certain tissues become deficient before others. (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 12th ed, p1936)
Preferred term Magnesium Deficiency
Entry term(s) Deficiencies, Magnesium
Deficiency, Magnesium
Magnesium Deficiencies



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