Introduction: Magnesium plays a very important role in the development of type 2 diabetes. Evidence presented for the etiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus does not permit the disease to be considered as an independent entity. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients can have microvascular complications like retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. Aims & objectives: To correlate between serum magnesium levels and vascular complications in patients of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Materials and methods: 50 patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus with micro vascular complications and 50 patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus without micro vascular complications were studied and compared. Results: Significant correlation was present in between low magnesium levels and microvascular complications. Conclusion: It is important to regularly monitor magnesium levels in all type 2 Diabetic patients. Because magnesium depletion reduces insulin sensitivity and may increase risk of secondary complications, it may be prudent in clinical practice to periodically monitor plasma magnesium concentrations in diabetic patients.
Key words: Diabetes mellitus, nephropathy, neuropathy, retinopathy, serum magnesium.

Received: 5 January  2019                                       Revised: 25 January 2019                              Accepted: 28 January 2019

Corresponding author: Dr. Ajay Jolly, Department of Medicine, GMC Amritsar, Punjab, India

This article may be cited as: Singh TP, Jolly A, Singh H, Singh G, Kaur D, Kaur N. Study of relation between Serum Magnesium Levels and Vascular Complications in Patients of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Int J Res Health Allied Sci 2019; 5(1):54 -58.