Title:Microbiome Medicine: Microbiota in Development and Management of
Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume: 22
Issue: 14
Author(s): Yogesh Garg, Navjot Kanwar, Shruti Chopra, Murtaza M. Tambuwala, Hemraj Dodiya, Amit Bhatia*Abhinav Kanwal*
Affiliation:
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University, Bathinda,
Punjab-151001, India
- Department of Pharmacology,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab-151001, India
Keywords:
Gut microbiome, synbiotics, metabolism, cardiovascular disease, heart failure, drugs, gut dysbiosis.
Abstract: The gut microbiome consists of trillions of bacteria and other microbes whose metabolic
activities and interactions with the immune system go beyond the gut itself. We are all aware that
bacteria and other microorganisms have a significant impact on our health. Also, the health of the
bacteria directly reflects the health status of the body where they reside. Eventually, alterations in
the microbiome at different sites of a body are associated with many different diseases such as obesity,
IBD, malnutrition, CVD, etc. Microbiota directly or indirectly affects the heart with the formation
of plaques in the blood vessels, and cell walls become prone to lesion development. This
ultimately leads to heightening the overall inflammatory status via increased bacterial translocation.
Metabolites derived from the gut microbial metabolism of choline, phosphatidylcholine, and L-carnitine
directly contribute to CVD pathology. These dietary nutrients have trimethylamine (TMA)
moiety, which participates in the development of atherosclerotic heart disease. The objective of this
review was to examine various metabolic pathways regulated by the gut microbiome that appear to
alter heart function and lead to the development and progression of cardiovascular diseases, as well
as how to target the gut microbiome for a healthier heart. In this review, we also discussed various
clinical drugs having crosstalk between microbiota and heart and clinical trials for the gut-heart
microbiome.