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Vitamin K for Heart and Bone Health


Date: 13/09/06
 
Keywords: Vitamins,
Your bones and your heart want the same thing: plenty of vitamin K.

 

Your bones and your heart want the same thing: plenty of vitamin K.

I recently told you how a deficiency of vitamin K may be associated with abnormalities in bone and cartilage - a factor that increases the severity of osteoarthritis.

Now we find that heart health might also require ample amounts of vitamin K as well.


Living well is the best prevention

Was it healthy living, or a high intake of vitamin K that helped thousands of men avoid coronary heart disease (CHD)?

That's the question prompted by the results of a study conducted by a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Tufts University and the University of Kuopio in Finland.

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