A team of researchers from Finland and Britain have found that heart attacks caused by a lack of blood flow to the heart may occur due to a bacterial infection in the arteries, in contradiction to the prevailing medical theories regarding heart attacks.
According to the study, published by the Scientific Association, researchers found that the atherosclerotic placies are fatty deposits consisting inside the large and medium arteries, and it consists of fats, cholesterol and calcium may contain a gelatin layer with a sticky bacterial bacterial layer Years or perhaps contracts.
The research team from the University of Tamper and Oulu Finns, the Finnish Institute of Health and the University of Oxford, British University, confirms that the inactive bacteria do not reach the body’s immune system or antibiotics because they are isolated within this sticky layer.
The researchers explain that the occurrence of a viral infection or any external effect may lead to the activation of the gelatinous layer and the spread of bacteria, causing a stroke that leads to a heart attack caused by a lack of blood flow to the heart.
The researchers reached these results after withdrawing samples from people who died due to sudden heart attacks, as well as patients with atherosclerosis and undergoing the treatment of carotid arteries in the neck and peripheral arteries in the extremities such as legs and feet.
Researcher Becca Careonin, head of the study team, says that for a long time the science has been skeptical about the presence of a role for bacterial infection in the occurrence of coronary artery disease, but there was no direct and convincing evidence about this link.
He added, in statements to the website “Medical Express”, that “this study monitored the presence of traces of the DNA of some types of bacteria inside the bachelors of the mythical development within the arteries.