Blood Clots and Stroke: How Oral Hygiene Can Affect Your Risk, According to New Research

Bad breath has notoriously stopped first date kisses in their tracks. But according to new research, poor oral hygiene can potentially lead to much more significant consequences than losing a date with Chad from Retro Fitness.
Researchers from Tampere University in Finland recently performed a study on patients who had undergone thrombectomies, procedures that remove blood clots with catheters that are surgically placed into arteries. They used a sample of about 75 people who received emergency treatment for brief stroke-like attacks that tend to temporarily induce weakness on one side of the body (ischemic strokes) to determine that oral bacteria might be involved in the formation of these blood clots...
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Researchers from Tampere University in Finland recently performed a study on patients who had undergone thrombectomies, procedures that remove blood clots with catheters that are surgically placed into arteries. They used a sample of about 75 people who received emergency treatment for brief stroke-like attacks that tend to temporarily induce weakness on one side of the body (ischemic strokes) to determine that oral bacteria might be involved in the formation of these blood clots...
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