heart health
Transplanted Hearts Take the Recipient’s Biological Age, and a Young Donor Did Not Rewind the Patient
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October 4, 2026
Transplanted Hearts Take the Recipient’s Biological Age, and a Young Donor Did Not Rewind the Patient
Older donor hearts looked biologically younger in younger recipients, and a young graft did not rewind the patient, a Harvard preprint reports.
Gum-Disease Bacteria Turned Up in Calcified Heart Valves After Cardiologists Refused to Call the Link Proven
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December 19, 2025
Gum-Disease Bacteria Turned Up in Calcified Heart Valves After Cardiologists Refused to Call the Link Proven
The American Heart Association's Circulation statement links gum disease to heart attack and stroke risk without declaring causation. A July 2026 lab abstract found Porphyromonas gingivalis in calcified aortic valves.…