Magnesium and Human Health: Perspectives and Research Directions

Table 4

Prevalence of hypomagnesemia in different populations and under different clinical settings.

Authors	Country and year	Definition	Sample	Sample size	Prevalence
Chernow [23]	USA, 1989	<0.75 mmol/L	ICU	193	61%
Schimatschek and Rempis [24]	Germany, 2001	<0.76 mmol/L	Unselected population	16,000	14.5%
Cheungpasitporn et al. [25]	USA, 2015	<0.70 mmol/L	Hospitalized patients	65,974	20.2%

ICU: intensive care unit.