Role of Magnesium in Reducing Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction

A number of small, randomised clinical trials and one large trial of intravenous magnesium have been conducted on patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Most of these trials indicate that treatment with magnesium has a beneficial effect on short term mortality, although in most of the small trials the results are inconclusive.A systematic overview of mortality and serious morbidity data from all the available randomised controlled …