The oral-gut microbiota axis: a link in cardiometabolic diseases

NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2025 Jan 10;11(1):11. doi: 10.1038/s41522-025-00646-5.

Abstract

The oral-gut microbiota axis plays a crucial role in cardiometabolic health. This review explores the interactions between these microbiomes through enteric, hematogenous, and immune pathways, resulting in disruptions in microbial balance and metabolic processes. These disruptions contribute to systemic inflammation, metabolic disorders, and endothelial dysfunction, which are closely associated with cardiometabolic diseases. Understanding these interactions provides insights for innovative therapeutic strategies to prevent and manage cardiometabolic diseases.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cardiovascular Diseases* / etiology
  • Cardiovascular Diseases* / microbiology
  • Dysbiosis
  • Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
  • Humans
  • Inflammation / microbiology
  • Metabolic Diseases / metabolism
  • Metabolic Diseases / microbiology
  • Mouth* / microbiology