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4% of patients having heart permanent damage is still 13,128,000 people. Qualitatively, those numbers are equally hard to grasp, so why would it be any less ter
by ImaCake 6y ago
4% of patients having heart permanent damage is still 13,128,000 people. Qualitatively, those numbers are equally hard to grasp, so why would it be any less terrifying?
- hedora 6y agoHeart scarring (what the study looked for) is extremely common. For instance, flossing your teeth commonly leads to an opportunistic infection that leads to heart tissue scarring. If most of the 13M are expected to be impacted in some way by the heart damage, then the number is terrifying, but the evidence doesn’t back that up. Also, there’s a huge difference between 1/5 people need heart surgery, and the more realistic 60% * 18% * 19%, which is closer to 1/50. To help put that in perspective: ~1/2 of Americans suffer from heart disease.
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y agoCan you provide a link for the claim that “flossing your teeth commonly leads to [...] heart tissue scarring”? After some googling, it appears that the opposite is true. If you don’t brush and floss your teeth, you increase your chances of gingivitis, which can become a systemic infection.