Genetics, sedentary lifestyles, and unhealthy eating all contribute to atherosclerosis and heart disease. But scientists recently investigated the role of another surprising culprit—lipid-producing bacteria living in the mouth.
“For the past twenty years, I’ve been looking at lipids produced by bacteria associated with disease,” said Frank Nichols from the University of Connecticut, senior author of a recent study on bacteria and atherosclerosis published in the Journal of Lipid Research.
Nichols studies the microbiome looking for ways that oral and intestinal bacteria impact human health. Previous work had connected bacteria with atherosclerosis, so Nichols and his team decided to explore the biological mechanism of bacterial involvement in heart disease.
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