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What is vitamin k used for? how does it help a patient with congestive heart failure?
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Reverses warfarin: Vitamin K helps reverse the anticoagulant effect of warfarin (coumadin) when the blood is too "thin" but does not have ANY effect on heart failure
Answered 11/29/2014
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