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Vitamin K and vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease: An update of current evidence
Tzu 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
Gut 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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Skin 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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Maternal and Neonatal Benefits of Prophylactic Administration of Vitamin K Before Elective Cesarean Section; A Randomized Control Trial [PDF]
Annals of Neonatology Journal, 2023 Background: We aimed to assess the efficacy of prenatal prophylactic maternal vitamin k administration in decreasing blood loss during and after elective cesarean section (CS) and its effects on neonatal outcomes.
Reem Abdel Aziz +4 more
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Nutrition 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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Children, 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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Journal 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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Enhanced vitamin K expenditure as a major contributor to vitamin K deficiency in COVID-19
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 Objectives: Vitamin K deficiency consistently associates with worse clinical outcome in COVID-19 patients. However, whether this is due to increased expenditure during inflammation or poor vitamin K status prior to infection remained unknown. Methods: Dp-
Margot P.J. Visser +5 more
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Journal of Lipid Research, 1972 Bacteroides melaninogenicus requires vitamin K for normal growth. Cells incubated in a vitamin K-free medium form defective cell envelopes. Studies with vitamin K-grown “K(+)” and vitamin K-depleted “K(–)” cells showed that [14C]choline and [14C]glycerol
M. Lev, A.F. Milford
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Biofortification of Chicken Eggs with Vitamin K—Nutritional and Quality Improvements
Foods, 2020 National nutrition surveys have shown that over half of all adults in Ireland, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States of America (USA) have low vitamin K intakes.
Siobhan M. O’Sullivan +5 more
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