A multidisciplinary research team, led by Professor Aras Kadioglu and Professor Cheng-Hock Toh at the University of Liverpool, has now shown that the cause of cardiac injury is a toxin called pneumolysin, which is released by the bacteria during infection. They found that this toxin could directly attack heart muscle cells, causing injury, damage and death.I am so fcking lucky to be alive. My doctors should have killed me off a long time ago.
Importantly, the researchers also found that the use of antibiotics could exacerbate damage to heart muscle cells during infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae, as antibiotic-induced bacterial death releases large amounts of pneumolysin into the blood circulation.
Update:
Here, this is from 2011
Myth that gum disease causes heart attacks debunked
There's a correlation, but it completely destroys their dietary fat hypothesis, so it's clearly irrelevant. Eat some fruits and vegetables...A panel of 13 US experts spelled out their views in a scientific statement published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.The scientists reviewed 500 journal articles looking at links between gum and cardiovascular disease.They concluded that while people with gum disease may be at greater risk of heart or artery disease, the association is probably coincidental.
