Vitamin K prophylaxis in newborns is still an open field of debate: many types of protocol have been proposed in different years and Countries, and sometimes with great variability inside the same Nation (for instance, in Italy a national consensus is not available, so different protocols are ...
“Current dietary guidelines for the consumption of vitamin K are generally only based on the amount of vitamin K1 a person should consume to ensure that their blood can coagulate,” she said. “However, there is growing evidence that intakes of vitamin K above the current guidelines can afford...
Though the conditions in which vitamin K influences biomarkers are not apparent, the study assumes that vitamin K decreases the expression of genes linked to individual cytokines (11). With low levels of vitamin K, the level of cytokines increases, and this results in bone loss and increased in...
Vitamin D offers numerous under-recognized health benefits beyond its well-known role in musculoskeletal health. It is vital for extra-renal t
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Interestingly, serum undercarboxylated osteocalcin (ucOC), a biomarker of vitamin k status, is inversely associated with VK2 intake and the development of advanced prostate cancer [17]. These studies thus suggest that the intake of VK2 may be beneficial in preventing the progression of prostate ...
Extreme carbohydrate restriction has been associated with increased low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels [69, 98], hypoglycaemia, ketoacidosis, and vitamin and mineral inadequacies [50,51,52,53,54,55,56]. These diets are difficult to follow in the long run [69] and there is lack ...
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Aims: Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) and vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) are used to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). This paper aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of NOACs when compared to VKAs by calculating the number needed to ...
They were using the tenets of “evidence based medicine”, which puts meta-analyses of RCTs as the strongest evidence. That approach may or may not be appropriate for pharmaceutical drugs [Biesalski et al., 2011; Hickey and Roberts, 2011], but is not appropriate for vitamin D, which ...