Are elevated admission calcium levels associated with better outcomes after ischemic stroke?
- 11 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 67 (1), 170-173
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000223629.07811.ae
Abstract
Calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+) influence the molecular pathways of ischemic neuronal death. The authors evaluated the impact of admission serum Ca2+ and Mg2+ levels, on incident stroke severity and discharge functional outcome. After adjusting for covariates, higher admission Ca2+ was significantly associated with lesser stroke severity and better discharge functional outcome. Admission Mg2+ was not an independent clinical outcome prognosticator.Keywords
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