Effect of Vitamin K on Age-Related Bone Loss and Vascular Calcification

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if supplemental vitamin K will reduce age-related bone loss in elderly men and women above that achieved by supplementation.

Timeline

Start

2001-10

Primary completion

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Completion

2006-10

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

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Publications

• Background Doherty TM, Asotra K, Fitzpatrick LA, Qiao JH, Wilkin DJ, Detrano RC, Dunstan CR, Shah PK, Rajavashisth TB. Calcification in atherosclerosis: bone biology and chronic inflammation at the arterial crossroads. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Sep 30;100(20):11201-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1932554100. Epub 2003 Sep 19.
• Background Jie KG, Bots ML, Vermeer C, Witteman JC, Grobbee DE. Vitamin K status and bone mass in women with and without aortic atherosclerosis: a population-based study. Calcif Tissue Int. 1996 Nov;59(5):352-6. doi: 10.1007/s002239900139.
• Background Booth SL, Broe KE, Peterson JW, Cheng DM, Dawson-Hughes B, Gundberg CM, Cupples LA, Wilson PW, Kiel DP. Associations between vitamin K biochemical measures and bone mineral density in men and women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Oct;89(10):4904-9. doi: 10.1210/jc.2003-031673.
• Results O'Donnell CJ, Shea MK, Price PA, Gagnon DR, Wilson PW, Larson MG, Kiel DP, Hoffmann U, Ferencik M, Clouse ME, Williamson MK, Cupples LA, Dawson-Hughes B, Booth SL. Matrix Gla protein is associated with risk factors for atherosclerosis but not with coronary artery calcification. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2006 Dec;26(12):2769-74. doi: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000245793.83158.06. Epub 2006 Sep 14.
• Shea MK, Booth SL, Miller ME, Burke GL, Chen H, Cushman M, Tracy RP, Kritchevsky SB. Association between circulating vitamin K1 and coronary calcium progression in community-dwelling adults: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Jul;98(1):197-208. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.112.056101. Epub 2013 May 29.
• Ma J, Ross AB, Shea MK, Bruce SJ, Jacques PF, Saltzman E, Lichtenstein AH, Booth SL, McKeown NM. Plasma alkylresorcinols, biomarkers of whole-grain intake, are related to lower BMI in older adults. J Nutr. 2012 Oct;142(10):1859-64. doi: 10.3945/jn.112.163253. Epub 2012 Sep 5.
• Shea MK, O'Donnell CJ, Vermeer C, Magdeleyns EJ, Crosier MD, Gundberg CM, Ordovas JM, Kritchevsky SB, Booth SL. Circulating uncarboxylated matrix gla protein is associated with vitamin K nutritional status, but not coronary artery calcium, in older adults. J Nutr. 2011 Aug;141(8):1529-34. doi: 10.3945/jn.111.139634. Epub 2011 May 31.
• Al Rajabi A, Peterson J, Choi SW, Suttie J, Barakat S, Booth SL. Measurement of menadione in urine by HPLC. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2010 Sep 15;878(26):2457-60. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2010.07.016. Epub 2010 Jul 29.
• Shea MK, Booth SL, Gundberg CM, Peterson JW, Waddell C, Dawson-Hughes B, Saltzman E. Adulthood obesity is positively associated with adipose tissue concentrations of vitamin K and inversely associated with circulating indicators of vitamin K status in men and women. J Nutr. 2010 May;140(5):1029-34. doi: 10.3945/jn.109.118380. Epub 2010 Mar 17.
• Shea MK, Gundberg CM, Meigs JB, Dallal GE, Saltzman E, Yoshida M, Jacques PF, Booth SL. Gamma-carboxylation of osteocalcin and insulin resistance in older men and women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Nov;90(5):1230-5. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.28151. Epub 2009 Sep 23.
• Shea MK, O'Donnell CJ, Hoffmann U, Dallal GE, Dawson-Hughes B, Ordovas JM, Price PA, Williamson MK, Booth SL. Vitamin K supplementation and progression of coronary artery calcium in older men and women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Jun;89(6):1799-807. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.27338. Epub 2009 Apr 22.
• Yoshida M, Jacques PF, Meigs JB, Saltzman E, Shea MK, Gundberg C, Dawson-Hughes B, Dallal G, Booth SL. Effect of vitamin K supplementation on insulin resistance in older men and women. Diabetes Care. 2008 Nov;31(11):2092-6. doi: 10.2337/dc08-1204. Epub 2008 Aug 12.
• Shea MK, Dallal GE, Dawson-Hughes B, Ordovas JM, O'Donnell CJ, Gundberg CM, Peterson JW, Booth SL. Vitamin K, circulating cytokines, and bone mineral density in older men and women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Aug;88(2):356-63. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/88.2.356.
• Neogi T, Felson DT, Sarno R, Booth SL. Vitamin K in hand osteoarthritis: results from a randomised clinical trial. Ann Rheum Dis. 2008 Nov;67(11):1570-3. doi: 10.1136/ard.2008.094771. Epub 2008 Jul 14.

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