Functional vitamin K insufficiency, vascular calcification and mortality in advanced chronic kidney disease: A cohort study.

Functional vitamin K insufficiency, vascular calcification and mortality in advanced chronic kidney disease: A cohort study.

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) suffer from vitamin K deficiency and are at high risk of vascular calcification (VC) and premature death. We investigated the association of functional vitamin K deficiency with all-cause mortality and whether this association is modified by the presence of...

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Main Authors: Lu Dai, Longkai Li, Helen Erlandsson, Armand M G Jaminon, Abdul Rashid Qureshi, Jonaz Ripsweden, Torkel B Brismar, Anna Witasp, Olof Heimbürger, Hanne Skou Jørgensen, Peter Barany, Bengt Lindholm, Pieter Evenepoel, Leon J Schurgers, Peter Stenvinkel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247623

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