{"id":205086,"date":"2025-01-31T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/oral-bacteria-linked-to-stroke-risk"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:30:34","slug":"oral-bacteria-linked-to-stroke-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/oral-bacteria-linked-to-stroke-risk","title":{"rendered":"Oral Bacteria Linked to Stroke Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oral-bacteria-linked-to-stroke-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>A new study finds that the bacteria <em>Streptococcus anginosus<\/em> is more abundant in the saliva and gut of people who have had a stroke and is associated with a higher risk of death and major cardiovascular events. Researchers compared 189 stroke patients with 55 non-stroke participants, finding that this bacterium increased stroke risk by 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, beneficial bacteria like <em>Anaerostipes hadrus<\/em> and <em>Bacteroides plebeius<\/em> were linked to a reduced stroke risk. The findings highlight the importance of oral hygiene in stroke prevention, as <em>Streptococcus anginosus<\/em> contributes to tooth decay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new study finds that the bacteria Streptococcus anginosus is more abundant in the saliva and gut of people who have had a stroke and is associated with a higher risk of death and major cardiovascular events. Researchers compared 189 stroke patients with 55 non-stroke participants, finding that this bacterium increased stroke risk by [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205086","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=205086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}