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When these men joined the study in 1986, each was classified according to how much potassium he consumed on a daily basis...
Over the following eight years, 300 of these men, aged 40 to 75, suffered strokes. The group with the highest potassium intake had a 38 percent lower chance of suffering a stroke, according to the study. In addition, those with the highest magnesium intake had a chance of a stroke 30 percent lower than those who had the least magnesium...
This is not the only Harvard study to come out this year on the relationship between strokes and potassium. Dr. Frank M. Sacks, associate professor of nutrition, published a report in the January issue of Hypertension, which said potassium could lower high blood pressure, the leading cause of strokes. His study did not concern magnesium...
Sacks said it was difficult to separate the effects of potassium and magnesium...
...Foods that contain potassium often contain magnesium as well," he said...