In 2024, researchers in Italy reported finding micronanoplastics in plaque from some people without symptoms who underwent surgery to remove carotid artery plaque. Symptoms caused by carotid ...

In 2024, researchers in Italy reported finding micronanoplastics in plaque from some people without symptoms who underwent surgery to remove carotid artery plaque. Symptoms caused by carotid ...

Plaque, the fatty deposits that can narrow the carotid artery, may cause a stroke. People unknowingly eat and drink micronanoplastics from plastic waste broken down and collected in the soil and ...

Plaque, the fatty deposits that can narrow the carotid artery, may cause a stroke. People unknowingly eat and drink micronanoplastics from plastic waste broken down and collected in the soil and water ...

57 micrograms/gram) in plaque among people without symptoms compared to the levels found in artery walls of deceased tissue donors of similar age with no plaque; and 51 times higher (2,888 ...

Even people with carotid artery plaque who had not experienced any of those conditions still had 16 times more micronanoplastics in their plaque. "It's not just that diseased arteries have more ...