Tooth loss could be associated with heart disease.

Date of your teeth because chewing gum ..? You best be careful. Because according to research from the University of Minnesota, USA over 711 volunteers in Northern Manhattan, tooth loss could be a sign you have symptoms of cardiovascular heart disease.

In its publication on `Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association` the possibility of losing a tooth could be a possibility of periodontal disease is associated with arteriosclerosis (a symptom that can develop in the arteries and make blood flow to the brain is disrupted).
The results of the University of Minnesota over 711 volunteers who average 66 years old shows it.

Though they are known to have no history of heart disease or stroke.

All volunteers examined dental health, physical, and neurological.
Dental health is an important thing, including the daily living habits.
A number of volunteers were also examined by ultrasound scans to detect the level of the carotid arteries.
At the end of the study the researchers found increased number of tooth loss.
About 45 percent of the volunteers lost nine teeth, 60 percent of them actually lost 10 teeth in which they all have experienced plaque in blood flow.

Although many researchers suspect that the loss / tooth loss is an indicator of chronic infection caused by chewing gum, but they cautioned that tooth loss may have other relationships a number of diseases.
Researchers then add the number of volunteers including those who emmang linked to heart disease.

Such as smoking, diet and low physical activity.
Then the researchers said tooth loss an early sign of cardiovascular heart disease.

" We understand that this is the first discovery of the relationship between tooth loss with cardiovascular disease, "said lead researcher Dr. Moise Desvarieux.