Vitamin K can be stored by the body. The NHS advises that if you take vitamin K supplements you should be careful, as too much can be harmful – although taking 1mg or less per day is unlikely to cause harm. People taking blood thinners, such as warfarin, should not to take vitamin K...
Maternal vitamin D deficiency, which is highly prevalent in pregnant women in Europe, is linked to adverse health effects for both the mother and child. The objective was to assess vitamin D status in pregnant women by evaluating their dietary and supple
A reduced level of vitamin K in neonates is a predisposition of the hemorrhagic disease of the newborn, a condition characterized by unexpected bleeding, often with gastrointestinal hemorrhages, ecchymosis and, in many cases, intracranial hemorrhages, which can be life threatening. In most Western ...
Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy and its impact on the fetus, the newborn and in childhood. Rev. Paul. Pediatr. 2015, 33, 104–113. [CrossRef] 56. Landes, N.; Birringer, M.; Brigelius-Flohé, R. Homologous metabolic and gene activating routes for vitamins E and K. Mol. Asp. ...
Newborn vkorc1´{´ mice typically died within several days due to internal hemorrhage due to severe deficiency of γ-glutamyl carboxylated clotting factors. The lethal phenotype could be rescued by administration of large doses of vitamin K, similar to the rescue of the human VKCFD2 ...
Newborn piglets are agammaglobulinemic with inadequate cellular immunity until at least four weeks of age; hence they rely solely on maternal lactogenic passive immunity for responding to infectious agents early [11–13]. Therefore, boosting pre- existing maternal immunity against specific pathogens ...