{"id":223263,"date":"2025-10-11T07:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/plaque-buildup-in-the-necks-of-stroke-survivors-may-be-loaded-with-microplastics"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:11:36","slug":"plaque-buildup-in-the-necks-of-stroke-survivors-may-be-loaded-with-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/plaque-buildup-in-the-necks-of-stroke-survivors-may-be-loaded-with-microplastics","title":{"rendered":"Plaque buildup in the necks of stroke survivors may be loaded with microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plaque-buildup-in-the-necks-of-stroke-survivors-may-be-loaded-with-microplastics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microplastics and nanoplastics from degraded consumer products have been found in neck artery plaque, with the highest amounts in people who have had strokes, a new study finds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics and nanoplastics from degraded consumer products have been found in neck artery plaque, with the highest amounts in people who have had strokes, a new study finds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}