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ArticleScientific reports2024

Exploring the presence of oral bacteria in non-oral sites of patients with cardiovascular diseases using whole metagenomic data.

Aditi Chopra, Ricardo Franco-Duarte, Anjale Rajagopal, Phannaphat Choowong, Pedro Soares, Teresa Rito, Joerg Eberhard, Thilini N Jayasinghe

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Association Between Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index and Cardiovascular Disease in Korean Older Adults.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Aditi Chopra *Department of Periodontology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Ricardo Franco-Duarte *Department of Biology, CBMA (Center of Molecular and Environmental Biology), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Anjale RajagopalDepartment of Periodontology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Phannaphat ChoowongSchool of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Pedro SoaresDepartment of Biology, CBMA (Center of Molecular and Environmental Biology), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Teresa RitoDepartment of Biology, CBMA (Center of Molecular and Environmental Biology), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Joerg EberhardSchool of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Thilini N JayasingheSchool of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. thilini.jayasinghe@sydney.edu.au.
University of Minho · PTUniversity of Sydney · AUManipal Academy of Higher Education · IN

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia 2022.00340.CEECINDFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia "Contrato-Programa" UIDB/04050/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) encompass various conditions affecting the heart and its blood vessels and are often linked with oral microbes. Our data analysis aimed to identify oral bacteria from other non-oral sites (i.e., gut, arterial plaque and cultured blood) that could be linked with CVDs. Taxonomic profiling identified bacteria to the species level and compared with the Human Oral Microbiome Database (HOMD). The oral bacteria in the gut, cultured blood and arterial plaque samples were catalogued, with their average frequency calculated for each sample. Additionally, data were filtered by comparison with the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) database. We identified 17,243 microbial species, of which 410 were present in the HOMD database and further denominated as "oral", and were found in at least one gut sample, but only 221 and 169 species were identified in the cultured blood and plaque samples, respectively. Of the 410 species, 153 were present solely in oral-associated environments after comparison with the HMP database, irrespective of their presence in other body sites. Our results suggest a potential connection between the presence of specific species of oral bacterial and occurrence of CVDs. Detecting these oral bacterial species in non-oral sites of patients with CVDs could help uncover the link between oral health and general health, including cardiovascular conditions via bacterial translocation.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesMicrobiotaPlaque, AtheroscleroticBacteriaHumansMetagenome

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PMID38233502
PMCPMC10794416
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