AUTOIMMUNE INFLAMMATION - AS A CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERIODONTITIS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Over the past few years, a sufficient number of randomized clinical trials have been aimed at finding links between periodontal diseases, in particular, periodontitis of varying severity with chronic coronary heart disease, acute coronary syndrome, arterial hypertension and metabolic syndrome. Almost all of these cardiac diseases develop against the background of atherosclerosis. The commonality between periodontitis and atherosclerosis of various localizations remains to be elucidated, and this review is intended to summarize the research to date and that is still to come in the future.