Helicobacter pylori and Serum Magnesium Level in Hemodialysis Patients

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:Gastric complications are common in hemodialysis patients, and H. pylori infection is found to have an important role in causing gastrointestinal disease in these patients. On the other hand, magnesium is mainly excreted by kidney and magnesium metabolism has deficiencies in chronic kidney disease. The association of anti-Helicobacter IgG antibody and serum magnesium level in hemodialysis patients needs to be proved in larger studies.Copyright © 2014, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Cre-ative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dear editor, To understand, the aggravating factors of Helicobacter pylori in chronic renal failures, especially patients under treatment of dialysis, we conducted a research on 44 hemo-dialysis patients. At this study, we observed a significant pos-itive correlation of anti-Helicobacter antibody with serum magnesium. The results of this investigation suggested the association of serum magnesium with the H. pylori infec-tion (1). For a better investigation, we conducted another investigation on 94 type 2 diabetic patients who had a mean creatinine clearance of 62 ± 23 mL/min. In the second study, there was no significant correlation between serum anti-H