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  1. It's been described in the past, but I'm always a bit astonished to see that sub-gingival #pathobionts 🦷 associate with #myocardial infarction risk 💔.

    Testing 160 acute MI patients with varying degrees of clinical #periodontitis enrolled in this cross-sectional study, authors link increased abundance of subgingival #Porphyromonas gingivalis and overexpression of virulence factors to worse cardiac outcomes and CAD burden.

    Paper: nature.com/articles/s41598-022