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Brush your teeth to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in Biotech Asia, RAVI KUMAR KOMARAVOLU ON APRIL 19, 2015

Excerpts:
"Do you know how important it is to take care of your teeth? A new study published in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism hints the prominence of oral health, particularly when it comes to heart diseases. Oral infections are strongly linked to future cardiovascular diseases, according to senior author Thomas Van Dyke of the Forsyth Institute, an affiliated institute with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Periodontitis and Gingivitis are the most common oral infections, which are chronic inflammatory diseases that eventually destroy the supporting structures of teeth such as soft gum tissues. These oral infections permit bacterial growth to travel through the bloodstream to the heart and arteries, increasing cholesterol and triggering inflammation. It has been established that ulcerated epithelium-lining the periodontal pockets are usually between 8 sq.cm and 20 sq.cm in generalized periodontitis patients. The pockets provide a way for bacteria to enter into a patient’s blood circulation.

“Given the high prevalence of oral infections, any risk they contribute to future cardiovascular disease is important to public health,” Thomas Van Dyke said in the press release. They found that a high dose of a cholesterol-lowering, vasoprotective medicine known as atorvastatin, which increases the anti-inflammatory molecules, lipoxins and resolvins, in the blood, was effective at controlling both periodontal and cardiovascular inflammation."

Article at:
http://biotechin.asia/2015/04/19/brush-your-teeth-to-lower-the-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease/