The Role of Vitamin K in Chronic Aging Diseases: Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, and Osteoarthritis

Harshman SG, Shea MK · Current Nutrition Reports

Reads the osteoarthritis evidence beside the cardiovascular and inflammatory evidence, and makes the point that matters for a food entry: the associations are consistent, the mechanism is specific, and the intervention trials that would settle it have mostly been run for other endpoints.

Population

Vitamin K and age-related disease, including osteoarthritis

Intervention

Dietary and supplemental vitamin K

Comparator

Not applicable

Limitations

Narrative review by authors central to the observational literature it reviews.