University’s scientists Eith Coen in the United States determined that people who adhere to diet rich in vitamin K have 34 percent of the lower risk of deadly cardiovascular diseases associated with atherosclerosis. This is reported in an article published in Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers studied data on more than 50 thousand people who participated in a long-term study of Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health for the 23-year period. Products contain two types of vitamin K: Vitamin K1 comes mainly of vegetables and vegetable oils, and vitamin K2 is contained in meat, eggs and fermented products, such as cheese.
In the end it turned out that people with the greatest consumption of vitamin K1 at 21 percent less often fall into the hospital with cardiovascular diseases associated with atherosclerosis, while for vitamin K2 the risk of hospitalization was 14 percent lower. This lower risk was observed for all types of heart disease associated with atherosclerosis, especially for peripheral arterial diseases (34 percent).
According to scientists, although additional research is needed to fully understand the mechanisms are based on the protective function of vitamin K, they believe that it works, protecting the accumulation of calcium in the main arteries, which usually leads to the calcification of vessels.