Swollen, red, bleeding gums may be a telltale warning sign of heart disease. In fact, gum disease may put you at risk for both coronary artery disease and heart disease because the bacteria could travel to your heart and form blood clots or build up plaque in your arteries, which can be detrimental to your heart’s blood flow.
“People with periodontitis [gum disease] often have risk factors that not only put their mouth at risk but their heart and blood vessels, too,” Ann Bolger, MD, William Watt Kerr Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco told the American Heart Association. “But whether one causes the other has not actually been shown.”
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