Wikis > General Medicine > Nutritional Disorders > Vitamin, Mineral and Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency & Toxicity > Vitamin K
Vitamin K (phylloquinone & menaquinones):
Sources –leafy vegetables, pork, liver, vegetable oils
Function – formation of prothrombin and bone proteins
Deficiency osteoporosis; prothrombin deficiency haemorrhage
Toxicity anaemia, jaundice
Effect on lower limb –
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