Vitamin K Linked to Insulin Resistance in Older Men

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 09:35 in Health & Medicine

A Tufts University study of 355 non-diabetic elderly men and women found men who took a vitamin K supplement had less progression of insulin resistance over a period of three years compared to men not receiving vitamin K. Vitamin K did not appear to protect supplemented women from age-related increases in insulin resistance.

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