{"id":169925,"date":"2023-08-18T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-simple-mouth-rinse-could-spot-early-heart-disease-risk"},"modified":"2023-08-18T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:22:26","slug":"a-simple-mouth-rinse-could-spot-early-heart-disease-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-simple-mouth-rinse-could-spot-early-heart-disease-risk","title":{"rendered":"A simple mouth rinse could spot early heart disease risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-simple-mouth-rinse-could-spot-early-heart-disease-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if we could identify the earliest warning signs of cardiovascular disease from a simple saliva sample? Scientists think they have found a way to do so. Gum inflammation leads to periodontitis, which is linked with cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>The team used a simple oral rinse to see if levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/white+blood+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">white blood cells <\/a>\u2014an indicator of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/gum+inflammation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gum inflammation <\/a>\u2014in the saliva of healthy adults could be linked to warning signs for cardiovascular disease. they found that high levels correlated with compromised flow-mediated dilation, an early indicator of poor arterial health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in young healthy adults, low levels of oral inflammatory load may have an impact on cardiovascular health\u2014one of the leading causes of death in North America,\u201d said Dr. Trevor King of Mount Royal University, corresponding author of the study published in <i>Frontiers in Oral Health.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we could identify the earliest warning signs of cardiovascular disease from a simple saliva sample? Scientists think they have found a way to do so. Gum inflammation leads to periodontitis, which is linked with cardiovascular disease. The team used a simple oral rinse to see if levels of white blood cells \u2014an indicator [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169925","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}