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Dietary Vitamin K Intake and HPV-Infection Status Among American Women: A Secondary Analysis From National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data From 2003 to 2016

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objective: Cervical cancer is a serious potential risk to women’s health, and is closely related to persistent HPV infection. Vitamin K mainly existed in green vegetables, fruit, and dairy products.
Yinhui Jiang   +8 more
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Vitamin K and vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease: An update of current evidence

open access: yesTzu Chi Medical Journal, 2023
Vascular calcification, characterized by calcium deposition in the intimal and medial layers of the arterial wall, is frequently encountered in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and leads to an enhanced risk of adverse cardiovascular (CV ...
Yu-Li Lin, Bang-Gee Hsu
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Dietary vitamin K is remodeled by gut microbiota and influences community composition

open access: yesGut Microbes, 2021
Vitamins have well-established roles in bacterial metabolism. Menaquinones (MKn, n = prenyl units in sidechain) are bacterially produced forms of vitamin K produced by the gut microbiota and consumed in the diet.
Jessie L. Ellis   +8 more
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Vitamin K as a diet supplement with impact in human health: current evidence in age-related idseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Vitamin K health benefits have been recently widely shown to extend beyond blood homeostasis and implicated in chronic low-grade inflammatory diseases such as cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis, dementia, cognitive impairment, mobility disability ...
Araujo, Nuna C. P.   +3 more
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Prevalence and treatment of vitamin K deficiency in paediatric patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa‐severe subtype

open access: yesSkin Health and Disease, 2021
Introduction Patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa‐severe subtype (RDEB‐S) are at risk of vitamin K deficiency, potentially causing abnormal clotting, excessive bleeding, poor bone metabolism and abnormal vascular calcification.
N. Yerlett   +3 more
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High vitamin K status is prospectively associated with decreased left ventricular mass in women: the Hoorn Study

open access: yesNutrition Journal, 2021
Background Vitamin K is associated with reduced cardiovascular disease risk such as heart failure, possibly by carboxylation of matrix-gla protein (MGP), a potent inhibitor of vascular calcification.
Joline W. J. Beulens   +5 more
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The relationships between vitamin K and cognition: a review of current evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Vitamin K is a fat-soluble nutrient discovered in 1935 and its role in blood coagulation has been thoroughly explored. In recent years, studies conducted in vitro and on animals highlighted vitamin K involvement in brain cells development and survival ...
Alisi, Ludovico   +7 more
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Prevalence of subclinical Vitamin K deficiency in early infancy in exclusively breast-fed term infants

open access: yesJournal of Marine Medical Society, 2023
Background: Late Vitamin K deficiency bleeding, is a disease of exclusively breast-fed infants attributable to poor content of Vitamin K in breast milk.
Gitanjali Jain   +7 more
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Vitamin K catabolite inhibition of ovariectomy-induced bone loss: Structure–activity relationship considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The potential benefit of vitamin K as a therapeutic in osteoporosis is controversial and the vitamin K regimen being used clinically (45 mg/day) employs doses that are many times higher than required to ensure maximal gamma‐carboxylation of the vitamin K‐
Emery, R   +5 more
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The Impact of Vitamin K2 (Menaquionones) in Children’s Health and Diseases: A Review of the Literature

open access: yesChildren, 2022
Vitamin K2 activates vitamin K-dependent proteins that support many biological functions, such as bone mineralization, the inhibition of vascular stiffness, the improvement of endothelial function, the maintenance of strong teeth, brain development ...
Agnieszka Kozioł-Kozakowska   +1 more
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