Vitamin K1 and Reduced Mortality

• Effect of vitamin K1 on survival of patients with chronic liver failure: A retrospective cohort study.

  • 2020-03
  • Observational · n = 80
  • Medicine 99(13)
  • • Zhuang Xiong
    • Yangyang Liu
    • Tianying Chang
    • Xiaohao Xu
    • Shaokai Huo
    • Houbo Deng
    • Tiejun Liu
    • Yan Leng

  • PubMed: 32221088
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000019619

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Mortality

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  Patients treated with vitamin K1 had a lower risk of death (hazards ratio [HR] 0.37, P = 0.009) than the control group (P = 0.006).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes