Researchers say that by brushing & cleaning teeth one can save him/her from having a heart attack.
Doctors discovered that those people who have severe type of blocking in their arteries generally develop the gum problem very badly.
There is strong proof which says that there exists an association between the gum problems & heart problems, but a research says that for the first time they had found that there may be some connection between these two diseases.
The continuously recurring gum problem is known as periodontitis that can happen if there is collection of plaque or dirt all around teeth of a person & thus it leads to gum problem. The plaque is cleared if a person pay attention on their teeth’s always and clean them regularly with good tooth paste.
If there is improper cleaning of teeth than it can result in causing the gum disease due to infection. The tooth’s become weak due to gum bleeding and it may finally break.
Though it is not yet known that in what ways the gum disease causes the heart disease, it is believed that bacterium come out from the diseased gums may be the reason.
The bacterium makes its passage towards the bloodstream and there it makes active the immunity system, thus it causes inflammation of the arterial walls & narrows it down or stick to the fat collection present in the arterial walls and thus result in further blocking.
Cardiologists & dentists of France monitored nearly 131 patients who came in hospital for X-ray testing of their arteries. Each one of them was tested for gum problems as well as their blood was examined to see if there is any inflammation.
The lead researcher of the study is Dr Nicolas Amabile. He mentioned that patients who have the problem of artery disease had worst periodontitis in comparison to those who don’t have this problem. This worst teeth problem was linked with the arterial injury. This study is the first to claim that the very bad condition of periodontitis is associated to the increase of coronary arterial injury.
The gum problems can be utilized to know that who are going to have the heart disease. Periodontitis can be easily cured by antibiotics & proper dental care, so it is believed that its medication could also be helpful for the problem of coronary artery.
Robin Seymour who is professor at the Newcastle University Dental School — mentioned that the association between gum disease & heart disease is not proved till date. He also mentioned that in the study it was also not clarified that the known risk factors related to heart disease like smoking & diabetes were considered or not.
Professor Seymour said in a prepared statement:
They have only been followed for six months and we don’t know whether it will produce any long-term reduction in heart disease. It’s good practice to get your teeth checked regularly. You may not even be aware you have gum disease but it’s both preventable and treatable.
Scientists said that by staying depressed one can delay the recovery process if he got heart attack and thus it increases the chances of having another attack.
The scientists mentioned that the antidepressants would definitely provide help in attaining good mental health to those people who got the heart attack along with this it also increases the chances of their survival to some extent.
This study says that people who don’t get depressed attain their normal heart rate just in 2-3 months.
But it is seen in case of depressed people that they continuously face the problems which can cause the chances of having at random death.
The reason behind this is not clear; the depression increases the inflammation in the patient’s body & it produces effect on hormonal actions which in return put affect the patient’s heart.
The study appeared in the Archives of General Psychiatry on 3rd September.
