magnesium deficiency
Findings
No curated finding names magnesium deficiency yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of magnesium in the diet, characterized by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, and weakness. Symptoms are paresthesias, muscle cramps, irritability, decreased attention span, and mental confusion, possibly requiring months to appear. Deficiency of body magnesium can exist even when serum values are normal. In addition, magnesium deficiency may be organ-selective, since certain tissues become deficient before others. (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 12th ed, p1936)
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0006844), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
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