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Dr. Ajaykumar Rao Provides Perspective for Everyday Health Article on New Study Which Linked Type 2 Diabetes, Prediabetes with Accelerated Brain Aging

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Ajaykumar D. Rao, MD, MMSc, FACP, Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, provided perspective for an Everyday Health article about a new study published in the journal Diabetes Care which linked type 2 diabetes and prediabetes with accelerated brain aging. The findings, however, highlighted that physical activity, abstention from smoking and avoiding heavy alcohol consumption could help keep brains young. Dr. Rao was not involved in the study.