{"id":16739,"date":"2019-12-08T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=16739"},"modified":"2019-12-08T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:24:12","slug":"brushing-your-teeth-three-times-a-day-could-lower-the-risk-of-heart-failure-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/12\/08\/brushing-your-teeth-three-times-a-day-could-lower-the-risk-of-heart-failure-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushing your teeth three times a day could lower the risk of heart failure, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brushing your teeth at least three times a day could lower the risk of heart failure by more than 10 per cent, a major study has found.<\/h2>\n

Researchers linked it to a lower risk of heart failure and atrial fibrillation, a condition that causes an irregular heart rate<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n

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It is thought that frequent brushing reduces bacteria living between the teeth and gums, preventing it entering the bloodstream.<\/p>\n

Scientists in South Korea examined the connection between oral hygiene and heart problems in the study of 161,000 people aged between 40 and 79.<\/p>\n

They had a routine medical examination between 2003 and 2004.<\/p>\n

By the time of a follow-up ten years later, around 5 per cent had developed heart failure and three per cent atrial fibrillation.<\/p>\n

Brushing three or more times a day was associated with a 12 per cent lower risk of heart failure and a 10 per cent reduced risk of atrial fibrillation.<\/p>\n

The findings were independent of factors including age, sex, financial status, regular exercise, alcohol consumption and body mass index.<\/p>\n

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Other studies have shown that poor oral hygiene leads to bacteria in the blood, causing inflammation in the body.<\/p>\n

This increases the risk of an irregular beat and heart failure.<\/p>\n

The heart’s ability to pump blood or relax and fill with blood is impaired.<\/p>\n

Senior study author Dr Tae-Jin Song, of Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, said: ‘We studied a large group over a long period, which adds strength to our findings.’<\/p>\n

The research was published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.<\/p>\n

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Brushing your teeth at least three times a day could lower the risk of heart failure by more than 10 per cent, a major study has found. Researchers linked it to a lower risk of heart failure and atrial fibrillation, a condition that causes an irregular heart rate It is thought that frequent brushing reduces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[9951,6612,4837,10468,9505,12310,12900,6690,12238,10917,5807,9162,8370,7584,7185,214,5273],"class_list":["post-16739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-fitness","tag-age","tag-alcohol","tag-atrial-fibrillation","tag-bacteria","tag-european","tag-exercise","tag-hygiene","tag-korea","tag-oral","tag-poor","tag-risk","tag-scientists","tag-seoul","tag-sex","tag-south-korea","tag-university","tag-woman"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}