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November 30, 2016

Cardiovascular Disease Death Before Age 65 in 168 Countries Correlated Statistically with Biometrics, Socioeconomic Status, Tobacco, Gender, Exercise, Macronutrients, and Vitamin K (Cundiff DK and Agutter PS)

A study using multiple regression analysis of worldwide cohort data has recently been published in Cureus as…

October 13, 2016

The relationship between vitamin K and peripheral arterial disease (Vissers LE et al.)

Results of a long-term observational study that explored the interdependence of high dietary intake of phylloquinone (Vitamin…

October 13, 2016

Nutritional strategies for skeletal and cardiovascular health: hard bones, soft arteries, rather than vice versa (O’Keefe JH et al.)

A new review paper published in Open Heart focuses on nutritional strategies that can significantly improve skeletal…

October 13, 2016

Circulating Des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin is not associated with cardiovascular calcification or stiffness: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (Danziger J et al.)

Atherosclerosis recently published a new study that examines the role of vitamin K-dependent protein (VKPD) activity in…

July 26, 2016

Vitamin K2 Ameliorates Damage of Blood Vessels by Glucocorticoid: a Potential Mechanism for Its Protective Effects in Glucocorticoid-induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head in a Rat Model (Zhang Y et al.)

Glucocorticoid has been reported to decrease blood vessel number and harm the blood supply in the femoral…

July 26, 2016

Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review (Ravnskov U et al.)

A new review paper published in the British Medical Journal Open examines whether low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C),…

July 26, 2016

Medicines and Vegetable Oils as Hidden Causes of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes (Okuyama H et al.)

A new review paper published in leading journal, Pharmacology, examines the positive associations observed between cardiovascular disease…

June 16, 2016

Functional deficiency of vitamin K in hemodialysis patients in Upper Silesia in Poland (Wyskida K et al.)

Functional vitamin K deficiency (both K1 and K2) is postulated to be one of the most relevant…

June 16, 2016

Inhibition of TNF-a, IL-1a, and IL-1b by Pretreatment of Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages with Menaquinone-7 and Cell Activation with TLR Agonists In Vitro (Pan MH et al.)

Circulatory markers of low-grade inflammation such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1α), and interleukin-1 beta…

May 11, 2016

In vitro vitamin K(2) and 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) combination enhances osteoblasts anabolism of diabetic mice. (Poon CC et al)

Recently published paper in Eur J Pharmacology showed that the combination of vitamins K2 and D3 could…

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