August 16, 2020 Researchers from The Netherlands released a preprint* on April 25 that they then revised on May 29 suggesting that vitamin K, especially in the form vitamin K2, may benefit the lungs in severe COVID-19. What They Studied Their analysis included 134 subjects hospitalized for COVID-19 between March 12 and April 11. Their outcome was categorized as “good” if they were discharged without the need for ventilation and “poor” if they received ventilation and/or died. Their degree of lung damage was quantified on a 25-point scale depending on the percentage of the lungs affected. Since quarantining and social distancing precluded recruiting healthy non-infected patients for the same study, they compared the COVID-19 patients to 184 healthy, age-matched controls from a previous study.
Vitamin K and COVID-19
Vitamin K and COVID-19
Vitamin K and COVID-19
August 16, 2020 Researchers from The Netherlands released a preprint* on April 25 that they then revised on May 29 suggesting that vitamin K, especially in the form vitamin K2, may benefit the lungs in severe COVID-19. What They Studied Their analysis included 134 subjects hospitalized for COVID-19 between March 12 and April 11. Their outcome was categorized as “good” if they were discharged without the need for ventilation and “poor” if they received ventilation and/or died. Their degree of lung damage was quantified on a 25-point scale depending on the percentage of the lungs affected. Since quarantining and social distancing precluded recruiting healthy non-infected patients for the same study, they compared the COVID-19 patients to 184 healthy, age-matched controls from a previous study.