Poor oral hygiene can increase your risk of hypertension
Poor oral hygiene can increase your risk of hypertension
Struggling to bring your high blood pressure under control, even with the help of medications? The state of your mouth can say a lot about your general health.
Content
0.03 -> now there are a lot of factors that can
2.01 -> increase your risk of getting high blood
3.959 -> pressure such as stress family history
6.359 -> or just not getting enough exercise what
8.67 -> you may not realize is that poor oral
10.889 -> hygiene can also increase your risk of
13.2 -> hypertension
14.34 -> Roland Rodriguez is visiting the dentist
16.59 -> this morning and joins us now live and
18.72 -> Roland I'm curious here are there are
20.789 -> there some ways to get this under
22.23 -> control I could warn you guys then good
27.029 -> morning sound taxes many people think
29.31 -> that dentists are only interested in
31.08 -> teeth and gums it's hard to believe or
34.559 -> the idea of a dentist asking you about
36.63 -> your high blood pressure or even your
38.579 -> health history may surprise you
43.219 -> struggling to bring your high blood
45.329 -> pressure under control even with the
47.34 -> help of medication the state of your
49.739 -> mouth can say a lot about your general
52.199 -> health a strong association between
54.89 -> hypertension and gum disease in the
57 -> sense that some people who have an oral
59.399 -> health have a lower blood pressure than
61.8 -> those who do not have good oral health
63.75 -> you will see that their blood pressure
65.07 -> will be higher patients with
66.869 -> hypertension and inflamed gums are 20%
69.659 -> less likely to have their blood pressure
71.88 -> in a healthy range so signs of gum
75.63 -> disease would be puffy gums bleeding
78.18 -> gums the gum tissue receding I show your
80.79 -> roots getting exposed pain even
82.95 -> loosening of the teeth can be a result
84.78 -> of that and even pus can be a result of
87.15 -> a sign of gum disease 75 million
90.54 -> Americans have high blood pressure
92.689 -> increasing the risk of other serious
95.52 -> health problems well we're seeing a
98.13 -> strong association between several
99.659 -> metabolic diseases like diabetes
103.28 -> cardiovascular disease which is related
105.57 -> to hypertension so hypertension is a big
107.64 -> big problem and that it's a leading
109.74 -> cause of cardiovascular disease blood
112.29 -> vessel disease which results can result
114.869 -> in heart attack and strokes there's a
116.85 -> lot to be said for our healthy mouth
118.229 -> according to the Centers for Disease
120.09 -> Control and Prevention only 54 percent
123.149 -> have their high blood pressure under
125.369 -> control from medication exercise diet or
128.879 -> a combination it's an infectious disease
131.459 -> it actually becomes its
133.53 -> into your bloodstream from the bacteria
135.39 -> entering into that and there's this
137.19 -> inflammatory response so that is assists
140.4 -> the hypothesis as to why all this is
142.74 -> happening to the body and the best way
147.75 -> to prevent prevent gum disease is
150.06 -> practicing good oral hygiene
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5bfcGQudpc