Daily increased intake of vitamin K2 of 10 micrograms reduces risk of onset of atherosclerosis in women after menopause by 9%. This discovery is for European population very serious, because atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death in developed countries. Atherosclerosis causes heart attack and stroke.

According to research, increases daily intake of vitamin K2 of 10 micrograms reduces an risk of outbreak of atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women by 9%. Our discovery could be crucial in the prevention of atherosclerosis. It is not necessary to start eating large quantities of meat and cheeses.

It is generally believed that, in atherogenesis has an essential role oxidative stress. Substances with antioxidant action should therefore be the development of atherosclerosis and prevent the occurrence of cardiac events, particularly if they were used in the early phase of atherosclerotic process. But the results of clinical studies are not clear, perhaps because patients enrolled in trials were a variety of advanced atherosclerotic changes or because the doses of vitamin C were not optimal.

There are a series of reports on the beneficial effects of antioxidant vitamin E as a means of preventing cardiovascular diseases and the development of atherosclerosis. One of observational studies concluded that people who consume more than 100 IU of vitamin E daily for more than two years, less frequently have heart attack and the development of atherosclerosis in coronary artery disease is slowed. Such a view is quite widespread.