of heart patients had microplastics in their artery plaque
Patients with plastic in their arterial plaque had 4.5 times the risk of death, heart attack or stroke over the following three years.
- Value
- 58%
- Unit
- %
- Data year
- 2024
- Trend
- Not applicable
- Source name
- Marfella et al. 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
- Source link
- doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822
- Confidence
- Evidence: High
- Caveat / scope
- Observational study of 257 patients in Italy; association, not proven causation.
- Verified on
- 22 September 2026
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