With the U.S. presidential race becoming increasingly personal, the spotlight has temporarily shifted from Hillary Clinton’s health to that of her opponent, Donald Trump.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Donald Trump released Thursday a letter from his doctor detailing some of his medical information, showing him to be in good health and including a statement that says he had “stamina”. Trump said Thursday he takes a statin to lower his cholesterol.
Those in the audience told NBC News after the interview that Dr. Oz gave Trump a clean bill of health.
According to the letter from Dr Bornstein, who has been Trump’s doctor for 36 years, Trump has only been hospitalised once – when his appendix was taken out aged 11.
The campaigns of both Trump and Clinton, 68, have said that their candidates would be releasing detailed medical records in the coming days. The Republican presidential candidate told Dr.
Bornstein said there was no history in Trump’s family of premature cardiac or neoplastic disease, which includes all kinds of cancers and abnormal growths. He discussed results of his physical ahead of the airing Wednesday of a taped interview with TV personality “Dr. Oz”.
Keeping the tax returns under wraps also makes it hard to prove Trump’s claim that he’s given millions to charity, “I’m a good person, i give money to charity, a lot of money to charity”. They also said that Trump does not exercise regularly, but he is so good at golf, he could easily join the PGA Tour. “He lived to a very old age, and he was really great right up toward the end”, Donald Trump said of his father.
Mr Trump, along with a number of conspiracy websites, has long questioned Mrs Clinton’s health, and the issue came to the fore on Tuesday when she was seen stumbling in public after a 9/11 memorial event.
Trump’s medical examination results can be viewed here. “This study was reported within range of normal”.
“In summary, Mr. Trump is in excellent physical health”, Bornstein wrote.
In it, Trump told Oz he had two letters with him showing results of tests conducted last week. I think that if I had one thing, I’d like to lose weight.
A day earlier, Trump had a conversation about the document with talk-show host and surgeon Mehmet Oz during a taping in NY.
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“Looking back I know I should have followed my doctors orders to rest, but my instinct was to push through it”, Clinton said at the Black Women’s Agenda forum.
