Research · Randomized controlled trial
Short-term magnesium therapy alleviates moderate stress in patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized double-blind clinical trial
What it found
Missed its primary stress endpoint overall; pain severity fell significantly versus placebo and stress improved in a subgroup — weak, mixed evidence.
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial
- Year
- 2022
- Sample size
- 75
- Population
- patients with fibromyalgia
- Intervention
- magnesium chloride 100 mg/day for 1 month vs placebo
- Outcome
- stress (DASS-42, primary), pain
- Journal
- Nutrients
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.