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team of scientists in Italy collected samples from patients that had plaque removed from the kateed artery so a
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total of 304 patients agreed to have the plaque that was removed from their artery submitted for analysis and then
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what this team did is they took that plaque and they studied it to see how much plastic was found in that plaque
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microplastics or nanoplastics remember are less than 5 mm in size with a mean level of 21 microG per milligram of
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plaque roughly one per is the ratio of plastic to plaque that they found which is really incredible
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incredible good or incredible bad incredible bad that these microplastics are accumulating in the human body now
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here's the scary part they then did a followup 34 months later the patients that had plastic in their blood had a
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four and a half times higher Ratio or likelihood of having heart attack stroke or death from any cause so all of these
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major health effects were four and a half times elevated in patients that had plastic in their blood