ALARMING DATA: MICROPLASTICS in your BODY #science #microplastics #plastic #technology
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Key points
- Microplastics Found in Human Plaque. A team of scientists discovered alarming levels of microplastics in human arterial plaque.
- Health Risks Elevated by Microplastics. Patients with microplastics in their blood face significantly higher health risks.
Episode highlights
- Microplastics Found in Human PlaqueA team of scientists discovered alarming levels of microplastics in human arterial plaque.“Incredible bad that these microplastics are accumulating in the human body now.”0:36Mar 14, 2024
- Health Risks Elevated by MicroplasticsPatients with microplastics in their blood face significantly higher health risks.“Four and a half times higher likelihood of heart attack, stroke, or death.”0:44Mar 14, 2024
Transcript
team of scientists in Italy collected samples from patients that had plaque removed from the kateed artery so a total of 304 patients agreed to have the plaque that was removed from their artery submitted for analysis and then what this team did is they took that plaque and they studied it to see how much plastic was found in that plaque microplastics or nanoplastics remember are less than 5 mm in size with a mean level of 21 microG per milligram of plaque roughly one per is the ratio of plastic to plaque that they found which is really incredible incredible good or incredible bad incredible bad that these microplastics are accumulating in the human body now
here's the scary part they then did a followup 34 months later the patients that had plastic in their blood had a four and a half times higher Ratio or likelihood of having heart attack stroke or death from any cause so all of these major health effects were four and a half times elevated in patients that had plastic in their blood
