“The results of the CT scan revealed a small right middlelobe pneumonia; her coronary calcium score was again zero”.
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Her campaign didn’t disclose the illness until Sunday, after video circulated on social media showing her stumbling and being supported by aides after abruptly leaving a 9/11 memorial service in New York City.
The release comes on the same day that Republican nominee Donald Trump shared some details about his own health with Dr. Mehmet Oz, on Oz’s eponymous TV show.
“I’m glad to have a chance to stand in for Hillary today”, he told voters in Las Vegas on Wednesday. “I don’t think so”.
Trump later added at the same rally, “We want her better, we want her back on the trail”.
The statement from the Oz program also said Trump’s physical was performed by Dr. Harold Bornstein, his personal physician, who in a brief letter past year proclaimed the real estate mogul would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”. The episode will air Thursday. The statement said that this is a noncontagious bacterial pneumonia and that she was treated with Levaquin, which she has been advised to take for 10 days.
“My overall impression is that Mrs. Clinton has remained healthy and has not developed new medical conditions this year other than a sinus and ear infection and her recently diagnosed pneumonia”, Bardack wrote.
The letter also describes medications that Clinton is taking, including a blood thinner and a medication for hypothyroidism.
In December 2012, when Clinton was secretary of state, she fell, hit her head and sustained a concussion. A video showing her almost collapsing during the event soon went viral and led to her team admitting she had been diagnosed with pneumonia a couple days earlier.
“These numbers suggest she’s a healthy 68-year-old woman with a very favorable cardiovascular risk profile”, said Dr. Mark Creager, director of the Dartmouth-Hitchkock heart and vascular center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and a past president of the American Heart Association. She later said she regretted saying half. She’s staying at her home in NY while her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and daughter, Chelsea Clinton, appear on the trail in her place.
In Greensboro, “Clinton will deliver remarks in Greensboro, North Carolina and discuss her vision for an America that is stronger together”, the campaign announced. The outlet additionally reported that, in a speech in Ohio, Trump claimed that Clinton “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS and all of the many adversaries we face”.
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In an apparent effort to capitalize on Hillary Clinton’s weekend collapse, Donald Trump promised to appear on television with noted quack Dr. Oz this week to go over the results of his most recent medical exam. He’s 5-foot-9 and weighed more than 208 pounds during his last physical in February. Yet he, too, has been circumspect about releasing details of her medical records.
