Heart Attack Symptom: THIS Sign In Your Mouth Can Help In Early Detection

 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that almost 17.9 million lives are lost each year due to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). CVDs are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels and include coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease and other conditions. Heart attack, also known as myocardial infarction is a condition wherein there isn’t enough blood flow to some parts of your heart muscle.

Without blood flow, your heart muscles begin to die. If you don’t take the necessary steps to get back the blood flow, it might lead to permanent heart damage or in severe cases, death. When a person has a heart attack, blood flow to a certain part of the heart stops or it is below normal.

However, before suffering a heart attack, one tends to experience several symptoms. If you keep a check on these symptoms, the condition can be detected at an early stage and one can seek the required treatment for the condition.

Some of the common symptoms of heart attack are; chest pain or discomfort, which might feel like a pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center or left side of the chest. You might also feel this pain or discomfort in your shoulders, arms, back, neck, jaw, or upper stomach. Other signs are shortness of breath, cold sweats, nausea, light-headedness and dizziness among others.

Along with this, you might also notice the warning sign of a heart attack or stroke in your mouth. Speaking on the Zoe podcast Dr Alp Kantarci said that gum disease and poor dental health can increase your risk of cardiovascular diseases.

This is because gum disease and the impact that it has on the stomach microbes and body in general had a big impact on inflammation - which puts the body in general under a lot of pressure, according to a report.

He said, “Most of the cardiovascular diseases or cardiac diseases are the results of your blood vessels, mainly aorta becoming clogged and the aorta is the major vessel coming out from your heart and distributing all the blood to that.”

The state of your mouth can have a big impact one this.

He said that the clogging of your blood vessels can be aggravated and get worse by the gum disease through two mechanisms.

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Does Poor Oral Health Affect Our Brains?

Bad oral health is very unpleasant and can affect one’s self-esteem quite a lot, which can ultimately cause stress. But this stress-inducing effect of poor oral health barely scratches the surface of the long list of other adverse ways gum and tooth issues affect our health.

A more recent discovery is the link between oral health and cognitive functioning, particularly memory and attention. More specifically, poor oral health in seniors has been associated with cognitive decline. Read more about the scientific basis of this correlation below.

The Surprising Link Between Oral Health and Cognition

As mentioned in the introduction, dental and gum diseases are known to affect us both psychologically and physically, but only recently we came to understand that these conditions can also affect our brain. This is a relatively new area of medical research, and so far, most studies have focused on the correlation between cognitive decline in older adults and poor oral hygiene.

A systematic  found that several cognitive functions may be affected by poor oral health. The study reviewed 23 different articles about oral health and cognition in older adults and established that even after controlling for many confounding co-variates, patients exhibiting memory decline, poor mental control, learning and attention difficulties often also had some kind of dental or gum issues.

Unsurprisingly, all of these brain functions also typically decline in patients suffering from some version of dementia.

Even more recently, in August of 2019, one additional epidemiological study considered this link and found something very similar. Of the 2.700 Chinese American men and women of a mean age of 72, 47.8% reported having teeth symptoms and 18.9% reported having gum symptoms.

The participants of the study completed a series of cognitive tasks measuring their episodic memory, executive function, and working memory. And while the results did not establish any correlation between gum issues and cognitive changes, those that had issues with their teeth did perform worse on the episodic memory task and did exhibit at least some cognitive decline.

Interestingly, it is specifically deficits in episodic memory, or the ability to memorize, recall, and mentally re-experience specific episodes from one's personal past, that are associated with Alzheimer's and dementia. In fact, changes in episodic memory are often seen in seniors years before the onset of dementia, which makes this observation of decreased episodic memory and poor dental health even more interesting and worth further investigation.

As this is a new area of research, the cause-effect relationship between oral health and cognition isn't completely clear, but it's still worth taking note of, as a routine dentist's appointment may help your brain function better for longer.

 

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