The number of real teeth is related to cardiovascular disease

A new study by Swedish scientists found that the number of real teeth of patients with dental disease is closely related to the probability of cardiovascular disease.

Oral disease is always considered a major cause of cardiovascular disease, but to prove quantitatively for this view is a very difficult problem. Because of that main reason, it is difficult to determine the criteria for measuring the severity of dental disease.

In their study, scientists from the Karolinska Medical Institute in Sweden selected the true number of teeth of patients with dental disease as a standard.

Specifically, scientists conducted research on 7,674 subjects with periodontal disease during a 12-year period. Research results show that the number of real teeth of patients has a very close relationship with cardiovascular disease, especially coronary artery disease.

The patient has less than 10 true teeth, the risk of death from coronary artery disease is 7 times higher than patients with more than 25 real teeth, the same age and gender.

Professor Holmlund of Karolinska Medical Institute, a member of the research team, said that dental infections will spread into the circulatory system of the human body, thereby causing the circulatory system to develop chronic inflammation at a level. mild, and gradually cause heart disease and cardiovascular diseases.

According to the World Health Organization statistics, heart disease is the # 1 health killer in the world today. Each year about 17 million people die from heart disease.

The results of the study were published in the latest issue of the American Periodontology Journal. /.