Are microplastics from car tyres contributing to heart disease?

"Add one more likely culprit to the long list of known cardiovascular risk factors including red meat, butter, smoking and stress: microplastics.

“In a study released Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, an international team of physicians and researchers showed that surgical patients who had a build-up of micro and nanoplastics in their arterial plaque had a 2.1 times greater risk of nonfatal heart attack, nonfatal stroke or death from any cause in the three years post surgery than those who did not.”

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-07/microplastics-may-be-risk-factor-for-cardiovascular-disease

The research is particularly noteworthy, given that one of the biggest sources of microplastic pollution is the synthetic rubber in car tyres: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112015017609398126

So it’s not just the sedentary lifestyles that car-dependent planning encourages that’s causing health issues.

And it’s not just exhaust fumes either.

There’s also the health impacts of microplastics, including from car tyres.

Worth noting as well that internal documents from the big oil companies show that they knew since the 1970s that recycling wasn’t going to solve the problem of plastic pollution. They promoted it anyway: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112064312364853769

#tyres #tyre #car #microplastic #microplastics #pollution #environment @fuck_cars #fuckcars

  • Bargearse
    2•4 months ago

    @ajsadauskas
    An estimated 11,000 die from exhaust pollution and 20,000 hospitilisaed from cars now , that’s ignoring 1000’s of direct deaths and injuries.

    I doubt most people really give a shit about micro plastics from tyres and participates from brakes, they’d ratier 10s of thousands die then ride a bicycle and catch a train.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/air-pollution-modelling-university-of-melbourne-traffic/102015778

    >Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year, new modelling by climate researchers has revealed

    >The grave estimate from the study means that death from air pollution in Australia is 10 times more likely than a fatal road accident.

    @fuck_cars @jgkoomey