Serum magnesium and calcium levels in relation to ischemic stroke: Mendelian randomization study

Susanna C. Larsson, Matthew Traylor, Stephen Burgess, Giorgio B. Boncoraglio, Christina Jern, Karl Michaëlsson, Hugh S. Markus, Rainer Malik, Ganesh Chauhan, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Yukinori Okada, Aniket Mishra, Loes Rutten-Jacobs, Anne Katrin Giese, Sander W. Van Der Laan, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Christopher D. Anderson, Michael Chong, Hieab H.H. Adams, Tetsuro AgoPeter Almgren, Philippe Amouyel, Hakan Ay, Raci M. Bartz, Oscar R. Benavente, Steve Bevan, Robert D. Brown, Adam S. Butterworth, Caty Carrera, Cara L. Carty, Daniel I. Chasman, Wei Min Chen, John W. Cole, Adolfo Correa, Ioana Cotlarciuc, Carlos Cruchaga, John Danesh, Paul I.W. De Bakker, Anita L. Destefano, Marcel Den Hoed, Qing Duan, Stefan T. Engelter, Guido J. Falcone, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Raji P. Grewal, Vilmundur Gudnason, Stefan Gustafsson, Jeffrey Haessler, Tamara B. Harris, Ahamad Hassan, Aki S. Havulinna, Susan R. Heckbert, Elizabeth G. Holliday, George Howard, Fang Chi Hsu, Hyacinth I. Hyacinth, M. Arfan Ikram, Erik Ingelsson, Marguerite R. Irvin, Xueqiu Jian, Jordi Jiménez-Conde, Julie A. Johnson, J. Wouter Jukema, Masahiro Kanai, Keith L. Keene, Brett M. Kissela, Dawn O. Kleindorfer, Charles Kooperberg, Michiaki Kubo, Leslie A. Lange, Carl D. Langefeld, Claudia Langenberg, Lenore J. Launer, Jin Moo Lee, Robin Lemmens, Didier Leys, Cathryn M. Lewis, Wei Yu Lin, Arne G. Lindgren, Erik Lorentzen, Patrik K. Magnusson, Jane Maguire, Ani Manichaikul, Patrick F. McArdle, James F. Meschia, Braxton D. Mitchell, Thomas H. Mosley, Michael A. Nalls, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Martin J. O'Donnell, Bruce M. Psaty, Sara L. Pulit, Kristiina Rannikmäe, Alexander P. Reiner, Kathryn M. Rexrode, Kenneth Rice, Stephen S. Rich, Paul M. Ridker, Natalia S. Rost, Peter M. Rothwell, Jerome I. Rotter, Tatjana Rundek, Ralph L. Sacco, Saori Sakaue, Michele M. Sale, Veikko Salomaa, Bishwa R. Sapkota, Reinhold Schmidt, Carsten O. Schmidt, Ulf Schminke, Pankaj Sharma, Agnieszka Slowik, Cathie L.M. Sudlow, Christian Tanislav, Turgut Tatlisumak, Kent D. Taylor, Vincent N.S. Thijs, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Steffen Tiedt, Stella Trompet, Christophe Tzourio, Cornelia M. Van Duijn, Matthew Walters, Nicholas J. Wareham, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, James G. Wilson, Kerri L. Wiggins, Qiong Yang, Salim Yusuf, Najaf Amin, Hugo S. Aparicio, Donna K. Arnett, John Attia, Alexa S. Beiser, Claudine Berr, Julie E. Buring, Mariana Bustamante, Valeria Caso, Yu Ching Cheng, Seung Hoan Choi, Ayesha Chowhan, Natalia Cullell, Jean François Dartigues, Hossein Delavaran, Pilar Delgado, Marcus Dörr, Gunnar Engström, Ian Ford, Wander S. Gurpreet, Anders Hamsten, Laura Heitsch, Atsushi Hozawa, Laura Ibanez, Andreea Ilinca, Martin Ingelsson, Motoki Iwasaki, Rebecca D. Jackson, Katarina Jood, Pekka Jousilahti, Sara Kaffashian, Lalit Kalra, Masahiro Kamouchi, Takanari Kitazono, Olafur Kjartansson, Manja Kloss, Peter J. Koudstaal, Jerzy Krupinski, Daniel L. Labovitz, Cathy C. Laurie, Christopher R. Levi, Linxin Li, Lars Lind, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Vasileios Lioutas, Yong Mei Liu, Oscar L. Lopez, Hirata Makoto, Nicolas Martinez-Majander, Koichi Matsuda, Naoko Minegishi, Joan Montaner, Andrew P. Morris, Elena Muiño, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Bo Norrving, Soichi Ogishima, Eugenio A. Parati, Leema Reddy Peddareddygari, Nancy L. Pedersen, Joanna Pera, Markus Perola, Alessandro Pezzini, Silvana Pileggi, Raquel Rabionet, Iolanda Riba-Llena, Marta Ribasés, Jose R. Romero, Jaume Roquer, Anthony G. Rudd, Antti Pekka Sarin, Ralhan Sarju, Chloe Sarnowski, Makoto Sasaki, Claudia L. Satizabal, Mamoru Satoh, Naveed Sattar, Norie Sawada, Gerli Sibolt, Ásgeir Sigurdsson, Albert Smith, Kenji Sobue, Carolina Soriano-Tárraga, Tara Stanne, O. Colin Stine, David J. Stott, Konstantin Strauch, Takako Takai, Hideo Tanaka, Kozo Tanno, Alexander Teumer, Liisa Tomppo, Nuria P. Torres-Aguila, Emmanuel Touze, Shoichiro Tsugane, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Einar M. Valdimarsson, Sven J. Van Der Lee, Henry Völzke, Kenji Wakai, David Weir, Stephen R. Williams, Charles D.A. Wolfe, Quenna Wong, Huichun Xu, Taiki Yamaji, Dharambir K. Sanghera, Olle Melander, Daniel Strbian, Israel Fernandez-Cadenas, W. T. Longstreth, Arndt Rolfs, Jun Hata, Daniel Woo, Jonathan Rosand, Guillaume Pare, Jemma C. Hopewell, Danish Saleheen, Kari Stefansson, Bradford B. Worrall, Steven J. Kittner, Sudha Seshadri, Myriam Fornage, Joanna M.M. Howson, Yoichiro Kamatani, Stephanie Debette, Martin Dichgans

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Abstract

ObjectiveTo determine whether serum magnesium and calcium concentrations are causally associated with ischemic stroke or any of its subtypes using the mendelian randomization approach.MethodsAnalyses were conducted using summary statistics data for 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms robustly associated with serum magnesium (n = 6) or serum calcium (n = 7) concentrations. The corresponding data for ischemic stroke were obtained from the MEGASTROKE consortium (34,217 cases and 404,630 noncases).ResultsIn standard mendelian randomization analysis, the odds ratios for each 0.1 mmol/L (about 1 SD) increase in genetically predicted serum magnesium concentrations were 0.78 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.69-0.89; p = 1.3 × 10-4) for all ischemic stroke, 0.63 (95% CI 0.50-0.80; p = 1.6 × 10-4) for cardioembolic stroke, and 0.60 (95% CI 0.44-0.82; p = 0.001) for large artery stroke; there was no association with small vessel stroke (odds ratio 0.90, 95% CI 0.67-1.20; p = 0.46). Only the association with cardioembolic stroke was robust in sensitivity analyses. There was no association of genetically predicted serum calcium concentrations with all ischemic stroke (per 0.5 mg/dL [about 1 SD] increase in serum calcium: odds ratio 1.03, 95% CI 0.88-1.21) or with any subtype.ConclusionsThis study found that genetically higher serum magnesium concentrations are associated with a reduced risk of cardioembolic stroke but found no significant association of genetically higher serum calcium concentrations with any ischemic stroke subtype.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)E944-E950
JournalNeurology
Volume92
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 26 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Neurology

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