Dr. Jack Michael Guralnik M.D.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
4711 Langdrum Ln Chevy Chase MD, 20815About
Jack Guralnik is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Chevy Chase, MD. Guralnik specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Guralnik participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 1971
Board Certification
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Midlife hand grip strength as a predictor of old age disability.
- Smoking, physical activity, and active life expectancy.
- Aging successfully until death in old age: opportunities for increasing active life expectancy.
- The impact of vision and hearing impairments on health in old age.
- Exploring the effect of depression on physical disability: longitudinal evidence from the established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly.
- Racial differences in prevalence of cobalamin and folate deficiencies in disabled elderly women.
- Low back pain and disability in older women: independent association with difficulty but not inability to perform daily activities.
- Causes of death and clinical diagnostic errors in extreme aged hospitalized people: a retrospective clinical-necropsy survey.
- Asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease is independently associated with impaired lower extremity functioning: the women's health and aging study.
- The contribution of genetic influences to measures of lower-extremity function in older male twins.
- Comorbidity of five chronic health conditions in elderly community residents: determinants and impact on mortality.
- The joint effect of apolipoprotein E epsilon4 and MRI findings on lower-extremity function and decline in cognitive function.
- Muscle strength and body mass index as long-term predictors of mortality in initially healthy men.
- Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery.
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