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The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

It has recently been hypothesized that vitamin K could play a role in COVID-19. We aimed to test the hypotheses that low vitamin K status is a common characteristic of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to population controls and that low vitamin K status predicts mortality in COVID-19 pat...

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Autores principales: Linneberg, Allan, Kampmann, Freja Bach, Israelsen, Simone Bastrup, Andersen, Liv Rabøl, Jørgensen, Henrik Løvendahl, Sandholt, Håkon, Jørgensen, Niklas Rye, Thysen, Sanne Marie, Benfield, Thomas
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8229962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34207745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13061985
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author Linneberg, Allan
Kampmann, Freja Bach
Israelsen, Simone Bastrup
Andersen, Liv Rabøl
Jørgensen, Henrik Løvendahl
Sandholt, Håkon
Jørgensen, Niklas Rye
Thysen, Sanne Marie
Benfield, Thomas
author_facet Linneberg, Allan
Kampmann, Freja Bach
Israelsen, Simone Bastrup
Andersen, Liv Rabøl
Jørgensen, Henrik Løvendahl
Sandholt, Håkon
Jørgensen, Niklas Rye
Thysen, Sanne Marie
Benfield, Thomas
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description It has recently been hypothesized that vitamin K could play a role in COVID-19. We aimed to test the hypotheses that low vitamin K status is a common characteristic of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to population controls and that low vitamin K status predicts mortality in COVID-19 patients. In a cohort of 138 COVID-19 patients and 138 population controls, we measured plasma dephosphorylated-uncarboxylated Matrix Gla Protein (dp-ucMGP), which reflects the functional vitamin K status in peripheral tissue. Forty-three patients died within 90 days from admission. In patients, levels of dp-ucMGP differed significantly between survivors (mean 877; 95% CI: 778; 995) and non-survivors (mean 1445; 95% CI: 1148; 1820). Furthermore, levels of dp-ucMGP (pmol/L) were considerably higher in patients (mean 1022; 95% CI: 912; 1151) compared to controls (mean 509; 95% CI: 485; 540). Cox regression survival analysis showed that increasing levels of dp-ucMGP (reflecting low vitamin K status) were associated with higher mortality risk (sex- and age-adjusted hazard ratio per doubling of dp-ucMGP was 1.49, 95% CI: 1.03; 2.24). The association attenuated and became statistically insignificant after adjustment for co-morbidities (sex, age, CVD, diabetes, BMI, and eGFR adjusted hazard ratio per doubling of dp-ucMGP was 1.22, 95% CI: 0.82; 1.80). In conclusion, we found that low vitamin K status was associated with mortality in patients with COVID-19 in sex- and age-adjusted analyses, but not in analyses additionally adjusted for co-morbidities. Randomized clinical trials would be needed to clarify a potential role, if any, of vitamin K in the course of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-82299622021-06-26 The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Linneberg, Allan Kampmann, Freja Bach Israelsen, Simone Bastrup Andersen, Liv Rabøl Jørgensen, Henrik Løvendahl Sandholt, Håkon Jørgensen, Niklas Rye Thysen, Sanne Marie Benfield, Thomas Nutrients Article It has recently been hypothesized that vitamin K could play a role in COVID-19. We aimed to test the hypotheses that low vitamin K status is a common characteristic of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to population controls and that low vitamin K status predicts mortality in COVID-19 patients. In a cohort of 138 COVID-19 patients and 138 population controls, we measured plasma dephosphorylated-uncarboxylated Matrix Gla Protein (dp-ucMGP), which reflects the functional vitamin K status in peripheral tissue. Forty-three patients died within 90 days from admission. In patients, levels of dp-ucMGP differed significantly between survivors (mean 877; 95% CI: 778; 995) and non-survivors (mean 1445; 95% CI: 1148; 1820). Furthermore, levels of dp-ucMGP (pmol/L) were considerably higher in patients (mean 1022; 95% CI: 912; 1151) compared to controls (mean 509; 95% CI: 485; 540). Cox regression survival analysis showed that increasing levels of dp-ucMGP (reflecting low vitamin K status) were associated with higher mortality risk (sex- and age-adjusted hazard ratio per doubling of dp-ucMGP was 1.49, 95% CI: 1.03; 2.24). The association attenuated and became statistically insignificant after adjustment for co-morbidities (sex, age, CVD, diabetes, BMI, and eGFR adjusted hazard ratio per doubling of dp-ucMGP was 1.22, 95% CI: 0.82; 1.80). In conclusion, we found that low vitamin K status was associated with mortality in patients with COVID-19 in sex- and age-adjusted analyses, but not in analyses additionally adjusted for co-morbidities. Randomized clinical trials would be needed to clarify a potential role, if any, of vitamin K in the course of COVID-19. MDPI 2021-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8229962/ /pubmed/34207745 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13061985 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Linneberg, Allan
Kampmann, Freja Bach
Israelsen, Simone Bastrup
Andersen, Liv Rabøl
Jørgensen, Henrik Løvendahl
Sandholt, Håkon
Jørgensen, Niklas Rye
Thysen, Sanne Marie
Benfield, Thomas
The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
title The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
title_full The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
title_fullStr The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
title_short The Association of Low Vitamin K Status with Mortality in a Cohort of 138 Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
title_sort association of low vitamin k status with mortality in a cohort of 138 hospitalized patients with covid-19
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8229962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34207745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13061985
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