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  • Nutritional biochemistry
  • Genetics
  • Epidemiology

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  • Vitamin K is vital for health, but its causal link to diseases is unclear.
  • Establishing causality could position vitamin K as a disease prediction biomarker.
  • Previous studies suggest associations between vitamin K and cardiovascular, liver, musculoskeletal diseases, and cancer.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the causal relationships between vitamin K nutritional status and various diseases.
  • To determine if vitamin K acts as a risk or protective factor for specific conditions.
  • To explore vitamin K's potential as a predictive biomarker for disease susceptibility.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review to identify candidate diseases and vitamin K subtypes.
  • Two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.
  • Utilized publicly available genome-wide association studies (GWAS) statistics.

Main Results:

  • Higher vitamin K1 levels genetically predicted increased risk for ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and alcoholic liver disease (ALD).
  • Vitamin K1 levels were genetically predicted to decrease lung carcinoma risk.
  • Vitamin K2 biomarkers, matrix Gla protein (MGP) and osteocalcin (OC), associated with breast carcinoma, ALD, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) risks.

Conclusions:

  • Genetically predicted vitamin K1 and K2 levels show causal links to cardiovascular diseases, liver diseases, and cancer.
  • Vitamin K nutritional status is crucial in disease pathogenesis.
  • Further research should explore vitamin K's role as a predictive biomarker for various diseases.