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Kevin P. Davy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
215 War Memorial Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-3487
Fax: 540-231-8476
Email: kdavy@vt.edu
EDUCATION:
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B.S., State University of New York at Cortland; Cortland, NY, 1986 (Physical Education) |
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M.A., Adelphi University; Garden City, NY, 1988 (Exercise Physiology) |
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Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Blacksburg, VA, 1992 (Applied Physiology) |
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado; Boulder, CO, 1996 (Integrative Physiology) |
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Autonomic and cardiovascular consequences of obesity and the metabolic syndrome |
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Interaction between regulation energy balance and autonomic-cardiovascular function |
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Etiology, prevention and treatment of obesity hypertension |
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
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Gentile CL, JS Orr, BM Davy and KP Davy. Modest weight gain is associated with sympathetic neural activation in nonobese humans. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 292: R1834-R1838, 2007. |
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Beske SD, GE Alvarez, TP Ballard, KP Davy. Reduced cardiovagal baroreflex gain in visceral obesity: Implications for the metabolic syndrome. American Journal of Physiology 285 (Heart and Circulatory Physiology), H630-H635, 2002. |
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Alvarez, GE, SD Beske, TP Ballard, KP Davy. Sympathetic neural activation in visceral obesity. Circulation, 106: 2533-2536, 2002. |
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Alvarez GE, TP Ballard, SD Beske, KP Davy. Subcutaneous obesity is not associated with sympathetic neural activation. American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology 287(1):H414-418, 2004. |
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Davy KP and JE Hall. Obesity and hypertension: Two epidemics or one? American Journal of Physiology (Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology), 286: R803-R813, 2004. |
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Davy KP. The global obesity epidemic: Are we becoming more sympathetic? Current Hypertension Reports, 6: 241-246, 2004. |
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