The Structures of Life in PDF Chapter 4: Structure-Based Drug Design: From the Computer to the Clinic In 1981, doctors recognized a strange new disease in the United States. The first handful of patients suffered from unusual cancers and pneumonias.
A recent randomized controlled trial found that vitamin K supplementation in conjunction to vitamin D supplementation reduced the progression of atherosclerosis in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) significantly more so than supplementing with vitamin D alone.
The authors concluded that: âOur results confirm that vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease. This adds to the ongoing debate about the role of vitamin D in nonskeletal conditions.â The findings also suggest thereâs a threshold level of circulating vitamin D, below which your risk for dementia increases.