Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health Hernando Santamaria-Garcia, Sebastian Moguilner, Francesca R. Farina, Joaquín Migeot, Agustin Ibanez, Swati Bajpai, Temitope Farombi, Mohamed Salama, Sol Fittipaldi, Chinedu Momoh, with Professor Brian Lawlor and Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, Daniel Salazar Murillo, and colleagues, co-authored a paper published in Nature Medicine. The large international study examined how protective and risk factors influence healthy aging or accelerate aging using a sample of 161,981 people from 40 countries. The study reveals that air pollution, social inequality and weak democratic institutions significantly accelerate aging, specifically brain aging.
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