US President Donald Trump mentioned that he’ll bear his “lengthy scheduled Annual Bodily Examination” on Friday at a army hospital close to Washington.
“I’ve by no means felt higher, however nonetheless, this stuff have to be completed!” he wrote in a put up on Reality Social.
Take pleasure in quick meals
Trump, 78, is a prolific golfer who abstains from alcohol and cigarettes, however he’s recognized to take pleasure in quick meals and famously enjoys his steaks well-done.
His earlier bodily exams at Walter Reed Medical Heart raised questions in regards to the specifics of his well being information and in regards to the transparency of outcomes.
A bodily throughout his first time period, in 2018, prompt the president ought to goal to lose 10 to fifteen kilos however was typically in “glorious well being.”
His physician mentioned there have been no indicators of “any cognitive points,” and that with a more healthy food regimen, he might “reside to be 200 years outdated.”
A 12 months later, an examination discovered the 6-foot-3 Trump weighed 243 kilos (110kg), up seven kilos since shortly earlier than taking workplace, making him technically overweight. It mentioned he was taking treatment to deal with excessive ldl cholesterol.
In 2020, he advised Fox Information that he aced a take a look at for cognitive impairment by repeating the phrase “particular person, girl, man, digicam, TV.”
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidential marketing campaign in 2015, his physician, Harold Bornstein, launched a letter saying the candidate’s blood strain was “astonishingly glorious” and that if elected, “Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, would be the healthiest particular person ever elected to the presidency.”
Bornstein later advised CNN that Trump himself “dictated that entire letter. I didn’t write that letter.”
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