{"id":168416,"date":"2023-07-27T00:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/crohns-disease-scientists-say-bacteria-in-the-mouth-may-be-a-cause"},"modified":"2023-07-27T00:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:22:22","slug":"crohns-disease-scientists-say-bacteria-in-the-mouth-may-be-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/crohns-disease-scientists-say-bacteria-in-the-mouth-may-be-a-cause","title":{"rendered":"Crohn\u2019s Disease: Scientists Say Bacteria in The Mouth May Be a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crohns-disease-scientists-say-bacteria-in-the-mouth-may-be-a-cause2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crohn\u2019s disease affects <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nrgastro.2015.150\">four million people<\/a> worldwide. The condition causes debilitating symptoms such as chronic fatigue, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, weight loss and malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>Once symptoms develop, Crohn\u2019s is a lifelong condition \u2013 and while there are ways to manage symptoms during flare-ups, there\u2019s currently no cure.<\/p>\n<p>The exact causes of Crohn\u2019s disease are unknown and are probably due to a number of complex and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/crohns-disease\/\">overlapping factors<\/a> \u2013 such as genetics, environmental cues (such as smoking) and an immune system that\u2019s overactive in the gut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crohn\u2019s disease affects four million people worldwide. The condition causes debilitating symptoms such as chronic fatigue, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, weight loss and malnutrition. Once symptoms develop, Crohn\u2019s is a lifelong condition \u2013 and while there are ways to manage symptoms during flare-ups, there\u2019s currently no cure. The exact causes of Crohn\u2019s disease are unknown and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}