Just days after promising to release more information about Hillary Clinton’s health, her team has provided a detailed letter from the presidential candidate’s doctor on her physical well-being and medications.
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Clinton’s most recent medical test results revealed her cholesterol is in the normal range with LDL of 103 and HDL of 56.
The Democratic White House nominee “continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States”, she wrote, noting she is in “excellent mental condition”. On Sept. 2, she was found to have a low-grade fever, congestion and fatigue, conditions that worsened and developed into a cough as she traveled over the following week.
Dr Bardack said Mrs Clinton’s vital signs remained normal.
We also learn that Clinton had a sinus and ear infection in January. In a letter released by the campaign, Clinton’s longtime physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, who visited with Clinton at her home on Wednesday, says Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis on September 9 started as a “low grade fever, congestion, and fatigue”.
Meanwhile, her opponent, Donald Trump, has given a paper summary of his health to a TV host in an interview to air tomorrow. “I don’t think so”.
Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said Wednesday’s disclosures were “pretty similar” to information released by her campaign past year.
Weaver said she would be in Washington on Wednesday to lobby for federal aid. Her campaign later revealed she was fighting pneumonia.
The Clinton campaign released a statement from Clinton’s longtime doctor Dr. Lisa Bardack. During an appearance last month on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, Clinton called the GOP claims about her health a “wacky strategy” and opened a jar of pickles to show her strength.
Monahan said Kaine was “in overall excellent health and active in [his] professional work, and physical fitness endeavors without limitation”. “I think on the one hand, it is part of the wacky strategy, just say all these insane things and maybe you can get some people to believe you”.
Though senior aides knew about Clinton’s diagnosis, the delay in public disclosure fueled criticism that she is prone to secrecy and fed unsubstantiated internet rumors that she is hiding a health issue. He’s 5-foot-9 and weighed more than 208 pounds during his last physical in February.
Following the revelation of Clinton’s pneumonia, Trump vowed soon to release “very, very specific numbers” from a recent check-up with Bornstein.
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 previous year proclaimed the real estate mogul would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
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So far the 70-year-old Trump had released only four, gushing paragraphs on his health, written by his doctor Harold Bornstein in December 2015. The doctor toldNBC News that he wrote the letter in five minutes as Mr. Trump’s limo idled outside his office.
