The letter from Trump’s long-time doctor, Harold N. Bornstein, lists Trump’s weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and other numbers.
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Trump also takes a statin and a low-dose aspirin, according to the letter.
The result of Trump’s health test was not going to be shared on the show, his campaign aides had said earlier, but he took the decision of revealing it when Dr. OZ asked him about it while the show was being filmed.
Americans have new information about Donald Trump’s health, one day after the nation received an updated overview of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s health on Wednesday.
Bardack writes that a recent CT scan showed that Clinton has “a small right middle-lobe pneumonia”, a detail that was made public after the candidate had a medical episode leaving a 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday.
The brief letter issued by Bornstein last December claimed Trump would be the healthiest president in history, although the doctor later told NBC News he wrote it in just five minutes.
Donald Trump knows he could stand to lose a few pounds but otherwise is in great health, campaign adviser Sarah Huckabee Sanders told MSNBC on Wednesday after the Republican presidential candidate filmed a TV segment about his well-being.
Trump has cholesterol of 169, with HDL of 63 and LDL of 94.
Donald revealed all these stats when he stopped by The Dr. Oz Show, surprising the host by handing Dr. Mehmet Oz, 56, a report from his latest physical. His EKG and chest X-ray on April 14, 2016, were normal.
“When I’m speaking in front of 15 and 20,000 people and I’m up there using a lot of motion”, Trump said.
The fact that Trump’s physician’s letter references “stamina” is significant because it’s a word the Republican presidential nominee has regularly used in attacking Clinton.
Trump has released a summary of his latest physical examinations. “It would be good”, Trump said.
A president Trump would be the oldest ever, and Clinton would come in at second place after Ronald Reagan.
The campaign trail itself is arduous, said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University.
“Mr. Trump’s parents, Mary and Fred, lived into their 80s and 90s”, Borenstein wrote. “I had every single test you can have, and they were good”.
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Trump said he sometimes plays golf with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
