define the effect of deficiency of vitamin kboth


Define the Effect of Deficiency of Vitamin K?

Both excess and low intakes can have serious implications on human health, although such conditions arise rarely, these can often be life-threatening. Our subsequent discussions are pertaining to excess and deficient intake. Adults are usually protected from a lack of vitamin K because vitamin K is widely distributed in plant and animal tissues, the vitamin K cycle conserves the vitamin, and microbiological flora of the normal gut synthesizes menaquinones. Also, a normal diet contains about 300 to 500 mcg vitamin K daily and therefore supplies at least three times the amount of recommended vitamin K. Vitamin K deficiency leads to a lowered prothrombin level and increased clotting time, and thereby haemorrhages.

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