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Cholesterol can hide your inflammation. Cholesterol -> Coronary plaque -> Dormant bacteria within the plague biofilm is shielded from the immune system and ant
by nabla9 1y ago
Cholesterol can hide your inflammation.
Cholesterol -> Coronary plaque -> Dormant bacteria within the plague biofilm is shielded from the immune system and antibiotics. When it ruptures, bacteria is released, sudden death.
Viridans Streptococcal Biofilm Evades Immune Detection and Contributes to Inflammation and Rupture of Atherosclerotic Plaques https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.125.041521 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.125.041521
>Of the bacteria detected, oral viridans group streptococcal DNA was the most common, being found in 42.1% of coronary plaques and 42.9% of endarterectomies.