Smoking and Oral Diseases as Risk Factors of Heart Disease

Smoking
Cardiac diseases, particularly associated with smoking, cause about 191,000 Americans to die each year. This number is 44% higher than the number of people who died from smoking-related lung cancer. So smoking can harm your heart more than your lungs. Smoking can also affect the heart health of people around you. Approximately 37,000 to 40,000 people die each year from heart disease caused by passive smoking, according to the American Heart Association estimates.

Current research shows that people who are regularly exposed to passive smoking, that is to say, someone else's cigarette smoke, are at twice the risk of heart attack and death. The risk level (91% higher) is the result of a 10-year study with 32,000 women and is far more than scientists predicted. The study also noted that exposure to cigarette smoke from time to time increased the risk by 58%. Dr. Harvard from the Public Health Faculty. According to Ichiro Kawachi, there are 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, which give all the damage we know to the heart. They damage the inner walls of the veins, increase blood adhesion, raise blood clot formation and heart attack risk.


Gum Disease and Other Oral Diseases
Research in recent decades has shown that gingival disease (periodontitis), stroke risk can increase significantly. In a study conducted between 1970 and 1992, it was found that people with gum disease had a higher risk of paralysis in the 10,000 people who participated in the health questionnaire. According to researchers, bacteria associated with gum disease enter the bloodstream, damage the inner walls of blood vessels and support the formation of blood clots. Researchers evaluating the results indicated that people should pay more attention to oral health because oral health affects systemic health.