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