Microplastics have been found inside human heart tissues — though as the scientists who found them note, it's not all that surprising.
are absolutely everywhere. And, as it turns out, the human heart, one of the body's innermost organs, isn't spared.
Using laser direct infrared imaging instruments, the researchers detected "tens to thousands of individual microplastic pieces in most tissue samples," though as the news release notes, "the amounts and materials varied between participants." Blood samples from all of the participants also contained minuscule plastic particles of a number of different types as well, but, curiously enough, "after surgery their average size decreased.", this pilot study shines a line on how microplastics like those found in these 15 patients could be introduced without any neglect on the part of the surgeons.
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