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Dietary vitamin K2 intake found to be inversely related to cancer risk A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (March 24, 2010) reveals that vitamin K2, and not K1 has a role in the prevention of a variety of different forms of cancer.
In the prospective EPIC-Heidelberg cohort study, over 24 thousand participants aged 35-64 y were monitored for cancer incidence and mortality for 10-14 years. The association of K2 intake with mortality was stronger than with cancer incidence, with a statistically significant risk reduction of 28% for the highest quartile of vitamin K2 intake. Cancer risk reduction was more pronounced in men than in women, mainly because of the strong associations with prostate and lung cancer.
Katharina Nimptsch, Sabine Rohrmann, Rudolf Kaaks and Jakob Linseisen: Dietary vitamin K intake in relation to cancer incidence and mortality: results from the Heidelberg cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Heidelberg). Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2010 (epub) |
NEWS FLASHThursday, 06 October 2011 New Vice-president appointed
Recently, VitaK has appointed Dr. Egbert Smit MBA as its new vice-president. Dr. Smit (39) studied Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Groningen University and Read more...Tuesday, 04 October 2011 High citation score of VitaK Research VitaK is proud to announce that our publication showing the beneficial effects of vitamin K2 on bone strength in postmenopausal women was one of the five mostly Read more...Thursday, 22 September 2011 VitaK BV is happy to announce three new employees. We will introduce them shortly for you! Jill Giera:
Jill Giera started in the function of Office Manager. She studied Director’s Management as well Read more...Saturday, 01 January 2011 Leon Schurgers leaves VitaK On January 1 st, 2011 Dr. Leon Schurgers, former vice-president of VitaK has left the company to continue his scientific career elsewhere in the University of Maastricht. Read more...Wednesday, 31 March 2010 VitaK acquired ISO-9001 certification By the end of 2009 VitaK has completed to bring all its procedures to the ISO-9001 level and successfully passed the external audit performed by SGS, world’s Read more... |