Correlation between serum magnesium and troponin I in acute myocardial infarction

Abstract

Magnesium is one of the seven essential macro minerals in our human body and the 4th most abundant cation in the body. The role of serum magnesium in cardiovascular disease has been acknowledged extensively. The association between hypomagnesemia and acute myocardial infarction has been well recognized. A cross-sectional study was conducted at Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, and the samples were recruited from the clinical laboratory of the Biochemistry department. Fifty patients diagnosed with acute MI for whom serum magnesium and troponin T levels were taken into the study. Statistical analysis was done in SPSS version 29. The mean age of study subjects is 65±13.78. The scatter plot illustrates the association between all study subjects’ cardiac troponin I and serum Magnesium values. The association between troponin I and magnesium is negative. The Pearson correlation coefficient “r” is -0.05. It shows that the inverse correlation between serum magnesium and troponin I, as shown in the current study, could mean that low serum magnesium may have a higher area of infarction.