494: Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness Levels and Later-Life Dementia Lead researcher Laura DeFina, MD, interviewed

In this episode, Laura DeFina, MD, from Cooper Institute, is interviewed about research published this month in the Annals of Internal of Medicine . The study, shows that individuals who are fit at midlife have a lower risk of deveoping Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in their Medicare years. The study followed more than 19,000 generally healthy men and women who completed a preventive medical exam at Cooper Clinic in Dallas when they were, on average, 49 years of age. The exam also included an assessment of other health risk factors such as body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and cholesterol. Their health status was evaluated using Medicare data between the years 1999 and 2009, an average of 24 years after their Cooper Clinic examination. Listen to hear Dr. DeFina's thoughts on the study.

You can listen to 494: Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness Levels and Later-Life Dementia Lead researcher Laura DeFina, MD, interviewed online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

494: Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness Levels and Later-Life Dementia Lead researcher Laura DeFina, MD, interviewed is an episode from healthylivingradio's Podcast.

This episode is 07:51 long.

This episode was published on Feb 25, 2013.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from healthylivingradio's Podcast when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.