Higher dietary vitamin K consumption reduces risk of cardiovascular disease
Objectives:
Does vitamin K reduce risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and mortality?
Study design:
This review article included 21 articles with 222,592 participants.
Results and conclusions:
The investigators found dietary phylloquinone (vitamin K1) intake significantly reduced risk of total cardiovascular disease with 8% [pooled HR = 0.92, 95% CI = 0.84 to 0.99, I2 = 0%, 4 studies].
Significant means that there is an association with a 95% confidence.