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Relationship between diabetes mellitus mortality rates and drinking water magnesium levels in Iowa. 1990

S Joslyn, and C Lynch, and R Wallace, and D Olson, and C Van Hoesen

Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

A recent ecologic study has suggested a relationship between mortality from diabetes mellitus and levels of magnesium in drinking water. However, diabetes mortality rates were from aggregate data for the entire geographic area under study. The state of Iowa has data resources available to determine diabetes mortality rates for individuals on known water supplies in Iowa and magnesium levels for raw drinking water supplies. To determine the presence of this relationship in the state of Iowa, mortality rates from 1976 through 1985 for diabetes as an underlying cause of death and for major cardiovascular disease with diabetes as an ancillary cause of death were compared for individuals from towns in Iowa with populations of 1,000 to 10,000. At the stratification levels of magnesium in municipal drinking water used in this study, no significant differences were found in diabetes mortality rates.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007484	Iowa	State bounded on the north by Minnesota, on the east by Wisconsin and Illinois, on the south by Missouri, and on the west by Nebraska and South Dakota.
D008274	Magnesium	A metallic element that has the atomic symbol Mg, atomic number 12, and atomic weight 24.31. It is important for the activity of many enzymes, especially those involved in OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION.
D008297	Male		Males
D011786	Quality Control	A system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in a product or process by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)	Control, Quality,Controls, Quality,Quality Controls
D002318	Cardiovascular Diseases	Pathological conditions involving the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM including the HEART; the BLOOD VESSELS; or the PERICARDIUM.	Adverse Cardiac Event,Cardiac Events,Major Adverse Cardiac Events,Adverse Cardiac Events,Cardiac Event,Cardiac Event, Adverse,Cardiac Events, Adverse,Cardiovascular Disease,Disease, Cardiovascular,Event, Cardiac
D003644	Death Certificates	Official records of individual deaths including the cause of death certified by a physician, and any other required identifying information.	Death Records,Certificate, Death,Certificates, Death,Death Certificate,Death Record,Record, Death,Records, Death
D003920	Diabetes Mellitus	A heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by HYPERGLYCEMIA and GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE.
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014867	Water	A clear, odorless, tasteless liquid that is essential for most animal and plant life and is an excellent solvent for many substances. The chemical formula is hydrogen oxide (H2O). (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Hydrogen Oxide