Vitamin K and Reduced Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding Incidence

• Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in Infancy.

  • 2020-03-16
  • Review
  • Nutrients 12(3)
  • • Shunsuke Araki
    • Akira Shirahata

  • PubMed: 32187975
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu12030780

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding Incidence

  • Moderate evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  Intramuscular prophylactic injections reduce the incidence of early-onset, classic, and late-onset VKDB. Several epidemiological studies have shown that vitamin K oral administration is effective in the prevention of VKDB in infancy

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  intramuscular prophylactic injection (dose not specified); oral administration (dose not specified)