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Letter to the Editor regarding “Six months vitamin K treatment does not affect systemic arterial calcification or bone mineral density in diabetes mellitus 2”

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  1. Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA University Hospital, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1, St. Kyriakidi Street, 54636, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stefanos Roumeliotis, Athanasios Roumeliotis & Vassilios Liakopoulos

  2. Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41110, Larissa, Greece

    Theodoros Eleftheriadis

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This Letter to the Editor refers to the original publication available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-020-02412-z.

A reply to this letter is available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-020-02470-3.

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Roumeliotis, S., Roumeliotis, A., Eleftheriadis, T. et al. Letter to the Editor regarding “Six months vitamin K treatment does not affect systemic arterial calcification or bone mineral density in diabetes mellitus 2”. Eur J Nutr 60, 1701–1702 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-020-02469-w

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