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Avoid strokes by taking care of your mouth

What if we take care of our mouth to have a healthy brain? That’s according to preliminary work presented Thursday at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference. Poor oral health and gum disease have long been known to increase the risk of stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. Analyzes of several studies have shown that periodontitis increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases by 1.3 times. “But it’s not clear whether poor oral health affects brain health—that is, the functional state of a person’s brain.”In the press release, the author of the study, Cyprien Riviere, doctor of neurology at the Yale School of Medicine, USA, emphasizes.

Therefore, his team was interested in brains that were apparently healthy, that is, that had not suffered a stroke, of people…

Source: Le Figaro

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