A series of research papers from a group of researchers at Pitt’s Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine are trying to understand what connects oral and heart health and—if identified—how to develop prevention and predictive strategies.
“Our goal is to find a predictive tool. I think we can confidently say that if a patient has a lot of oral inflammation or gingivitis, that patient has a correlation with a higher risk of subclinical cardiovascular disease, but from a prospective way, we’re still pursuing more findings by continually looking at new biomarkers from our original samples.”
Anum Saeed, MD
Article by Kat Procyk