Physician
Internal Medicine
Dr. Laura F. Defina, MD
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Laura Defina practices Internal Medicine. She graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine. George Washington University School of Medicine is ranked 67 in research and 0 in primary care medicine Doctor Laura F. Defina, MD is a published MD. She has 32 papers published. The most current publication "Nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system versus nifedipine coat-core: comparison of efficacy via 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring."
Publications
- Association of Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Long-term Healthcare Costs.
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Middle Age and Health Care Costs in Later Life.
- Effect of fitness on incident diabetes from statin use in primary prevention.
- Changes in mid-life fitness predicts heart failure risk at a later age independent of interval development of cardiac and noncardiac risk factors: the Cooper Center Lo...
- Association of a favorable cardiovascular health profile with the presence of coronary artery calcification.
- Costs Associated With Women's Physical Activity Musculoskeletal Injuries: The Women's Injury Study.
- Association of cardiorespiratory fitness with left ventricular remodeling and diastolic function: the cooper center longitudinal study.
- Asthma and depression: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.
- Triglyceride-to-High-Density-Lipoprotein-Cholesterol Ratio Is an Index of Heart Disease Mortality and of Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Men.
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and coronary artery calcification in women.
- Physical Activity and Musculoskeletal Injuries in Women: The Women's Injury Study.
- The relationship between asthma and self-reported anxiety in a predominantly healthy adult population.
- Neural Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity with Complex Cognitive Training in Healthy Seniors.
- Depressed Adolescents Treated with Exercise (DATE): A pilot randomized controlled trial to test feasibility and establish preliminary effect sizes.
- Physical Fitness and Risk for Heart Failure and Coronary Artery Disease.
- The Impact of Race and Higher Socioeconomic Status on Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
- The influence of adjuvant therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness in early-stage breast cancer seven years after diagnosis: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.
- The association between midlife cardiorespiratory fitness levels and later-life dementia: a cohort study.
- Relationship between asthma and cognition: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.
- Fasting Glucose, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome as Predictors of Type 2 Diabetes: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and long-term survival in "low-risk" adults.
- Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines and Musculoskeletal Injury: The WIN Study.
- Relationship between serum homocysteine levels and depressive symptoms: the cooper center longitudinal study.
- Secular Change in Cardiorespiratory Fitness of Men: Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.
- Effects of omega-3 supplementation in combination with diet and exercise on weight loss and body composition.
- Depressive symptoms and metabolic syndrome in preventive healthcare: the Cooper Center longitudinal study.
- Shorter term aerobic exercise improves brain, cognition, and cardiovascular fitness in aging.
- Nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system versus nifedipine coat-core: comparison of efficacy via 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
- Psychometric evaluation of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in three diverse samples.
- Association between low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and depression in a large sample of healthy adults: the Cooper Center longitudinal study.
- Heart Rate Recovery and Systolic Blood Pressure Recovery After Maximal Exercise in Prevalent Users of Stimulant Medications.
Doctors Specialties
- Medical Oncology
- Oncology
- Internal Medicine
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Education
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George Washington University School of Medicine
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