A recent study of patients suffering from arteriosclerosis shows that microplastics and nanoplastics can even be detected in the carotid artery. Austrian researchers report that this could lead to an increase in acute cardiovascular diseases. “We ingest microplastics daily: through inhalation, skin contact, via the mucous membranes of the eye surfaces, or through the consumption of contaminated food. It is estimated that humans ingest around a quarter of a kilogram of microplastics in this way every year,” write cardiologist Friedrich Hoppichler and health psychologist Julia Schätzer in the medical journal…
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