Dr. Robert John Petrella M.D.
Internist
1153 Centre St Faulkner Hospital Em Jamaica Plain MA, 02130About
Dr. Robert Petrella is an internist practicing in Jamaica Plain, MA. Dr. Petrella specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Petrella provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Exercise gas transport determinants in elderly normotensive and hypertensive humans.
- Lifestyle modifications to prevent and control hypertension. 4. Recommendations on physical exercise training. Canadian Hypertension Society, Canadian Coalition for High Blood Pressure Prevention and Control, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control at
- Lifestyle approaches to managing high blood pressure. New Canadian guidelines.
- Cardiovascular responses to facial cooling are age and fitness dependent.
- Physician contact with older community patients: is there an association with physical fitness?
- Physical function and fear of falling after hip fracture rehabilitation in the elderly.
- An office-based instrument for exercise counseling and prescription in primary care. The Step Test Exercise Prescription (STEP).
- Viscosupplementation effect on proprioception in the osteoarthritic knee.
- Diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure. New directions and new approaches: 1999 Canadian recommendations for management of hypertension.
- Home based exercise therapy for older patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized clinical trial.
- Left ventricular diastolic filling and cardiovascular functional capacity in older men.
- Is exercise effective treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee?
- Determination of prefracture physical function in community-dwelling people who fracture their hip.
- Exercise stress testing for older persons starting an exercise program.
- Moderate aerobic exercise to increase fitness in older adults.
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