Many patients with variant angina have magnesium deficiency, according to the measurements of 24-hour retention rates in patients compared with controls. Magnesium deficiency detected by intravenous loading test in variant angina pectoris. The magnesium content of local drinking water was assessed for men who had died from heart disease and control cases in southern Sweden. Low selenium status is associated with a significantly higher risk of heart disease. A review of the literature shows that chromium is implicated in most of the known factors of heart disease risk.
Chromium deficiency causes high circulating insulin levels.
Since chromium levels have been found to be very much lower in patients with coronary heart disease than in normals, chromium deficiency may be a causative factor in heart disease. Low chromium levels in the aorta are found to correlate with coronary heart disease. Serum chromium and angiographically determined coronary artery disease. Insufficient dietary chromium is associated with adult-onset diabetes and coronary heart disease. Chromium deficiency is very common.