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Editorial
. 2022 Jun 23;14(13):2595.
doi: 10.3390/nu14132595.

Editorial for the Special Issue "Vitamin K in Chronic Disease and Human Health"

Evangelia Dounousi  1 , Vasillios Liakopoulos  2
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Editorial for the Special Issue "Vitamin K in Chronic Disease and Human Health"

Evangelia Dounousi et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

Vitamin K and its derivatives represent a complex of fat-soluble vitamins, playing a major role in the regulation of a large number of physiologic processes required for optimal homeostasis [...].

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