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2. Vitamin K deficiency bleeding - Wikipedia

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   Newborn infants have low stores of vitamin K, and human breast milk has low concentrations of the vitamin. This combination can lead to vitamin K deficiency and later onset bleeding. Vitamin K deficiency leads to the risk of blood coagulation problems due to impaired production of clotting factors II, VII, IX, X, protein C and protein S by the ...

3. Vitamin K - Wikipedia

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   Vitamin K is a family of structurally similar, fat-soluble vitamers found in foods and marketed as dietary supplements. [1] The human body requires vitamin K for post-synthesis modification of certain proteins that are required for blood coagulation ("K" from Danish koagulation, for "coagulation") or for controlling binding of calcium in bones and other tissues. [2]

4. Is Vitamin K The Same Thing As Potassium? Doctors Explain - AOL

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   Vitamin K2 (menaquinone): Vitamin K2 supports bone and heart health. Fermented foods are excellent sources of it. Fermented foods are excellent sources of it. When we don't get enough vitamin K ...

5. Vitamin K reaction - Wikipedia

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   [2] [3] Vitamin K injections are administered to newborns as a preventative measure to reduce the risk of hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The coagulation pathway helps the body stop active bleeds by using vitamin K dependent clotting factors (factors II, VII, IX, and X) which are synthesized by the liver.

6. Vitamin K Shot Hesitancy For Babies Rises, Alarming Doctors - AOL

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   Babies receive a shot of vitamin K after birth to prevent life-threatening bleeding. But more parents are refusing the injection. The trend is alarming doctors.

7. Vitamin K deficiency - Wikipedia

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   Vitamin K 1-deficiency may occur by disturbed intestinal uptake (such as would occur in a bile duct obstruction), by therapeutic or accidental intake of a vitamin K 1-antagonist such as warfarin, or, very rarely, by nutritional vitamin K 1 deficiency. As a result, Gla-residues are inadequately formed and the Gla-proteins are insufficiently active.