Vitamin K and Reduced Vascular Calcification

• Pharmacological and Nutritional Modulation of Vascular Calcification.

  • 2019-12-30
  • Review
  • Nutrients 12(1)
  • • Liv M Vossen
    • Abraham A Kroon
    • Leon J Schurgers
    • Peter W de Leeuw

  • PubMed: 31905884
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu12010100

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Vascular Calcification

  • Moderate evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  Recently, nutritional supplements have been recognized as a potential tool to reduce calcification. This is particularly true for vitamin K, which acts as an inhibitor of vascular calcification.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No