Table 1.

Patient’s laboratory findings before and after vitamin K₂ treatment.

Characteristics	Before treatment	4 months after treatment
25-hydroxy vitamin D (ng/mL)	38.19	38.29
β-collagen degradation product (pg/mL)	527.5	541.2
Total type I collagen amino terminal propeptide (ng/mL)	134.60	66.67
N-terminal molecular fragment of osteocalcin (ng/mL)	33.55	21.71
Calcitonin (pg/mL)	–	2.55
Bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (μg/L)	27.6	27.2
Parathormone (pg/mL)	26.7	21.6
Alkaline phosphatase (U/L)	131	124
Alanine transaminase (U/L)	16	29
Total calcium (mmol/L)	2.55	2.62
Phosphorus (mmol/L)	1.12	1.37
Creatinine (μmol/L)	49.3	63.8