Beware of mouth bacteria may lead to stroke

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Oral hygiene helps to prevent stroke This is what scientists suggested after finding traces of DNA from bacteria in the mouth in samples of blood clots that caused strokes, medicalnewstoday"He said.

Researchers at the University of Tampere in Finland analyzed clotting samples from 75 people who received emergency stroke treatment when they attended the acute stroke unit at Tampere University Hospital.

Patients treated with anticoagulants to remove blood clots via the arterial catheter. When they analyzed blood clots that were sampled in this way, researchers found that 79% of them carried DNA from common oral bacteria. Most bacteria were Streptococcus , Which belong to a group called streptococcus scientists.

Levels of oral bacteria were significantly higher in blood clotting samples than in other samples taken by surgeons from the same patients.

This research has already found that blood clots that caused heart attacks, cerebral aneurysms, strokes in the veins and arteries in the leg contain oral bacteria, especially streptococcal streptococcus, and have also shown that these bacteria can cause gastrointestinal inflammation, a type of inflammation the heart.