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Looks like the Trump-haters are worried about his health again. The info below is rather comforting.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/77876?xid=nl_popmed_2019-02-07&eun=g1185334d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PopMedicine_020719&utm_content=B&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_PopMedicine_Active
Trump's Health: Excellent or 'Ticking Bomb'?
—Zero publicly reported medical events in first 2 years in office
by Randy Dotinga, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
February 07, 2019
Donald Trump, of all people, might make presidential health great again. As he faces another White House physical examination on Friday, Trump remains on track to become the nation's first senior-citizen president in more than 150 years to avoid suffering a medical crisis in office.
The odds may not be in this sedentary teetotaler's favor, however, and not just because he faces an estimated 1 in 50 chance of dying of natural causes over the next year. He has unhealthy habits, cardiologists and psychiatrists fret over the state of his heart and mind, and history is not on his side. Most presidents over the last century suffered from significant health scares or died while in office, and only one – an often-ailing Ronald Reagan – was older than Trump.
A medical briefing after Trump's White House physical in January 2018 revealed that he was taking three drugs: 10 mg/day of rosuvastatin (Crestor), low-dose aspirin for his cardiac health, and finasteride (Propecia) to prevent male pattern baldness.
Statistics released at that time included Trump's weight (239 lbs), height (6'3"), total cholesterol (223 mg/dL), triglycerides (129 mg/dL), HDL (67 mg/dL), LDL (143 mg/dL), and hemoglobin A1c (5%).
So-called "girthers" scoffed at the reported weight, which they believed was too low, and cardiologists interviewed by the New York Times warned that his LDL level seemed too high in light of his treatment with rosuvastatin. Meanwhile, a Brigham and Women's Hospital cardiologist plugged Trump's numbers into a risk calculator for MedPage Today and determined he had a "pretty high" 17% chance of a heart attack or other atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease event over the next 10 years.
"He's a ticking time bomb," internist Patricia Hale, MD, PhD, former associate medical director at New York's Albany Medical Center, told MedPage Today this week. "I never had a male patient live to their 90s with that lifestyle, no way. And certainly bad stuff started happening in their 70s. Usually, they died before they were 80."
But others aren't surprised by the president's apparent good health. "It's not unusual for a person in their 70s to go for 4 or more years without need of medical care," said cardiologist and presidential medical historian John Sotos, MD. "His threats, statistically, are atherosclerotic disease and cancer. But he takes a statin and certainly has his blood pressure followed, while his lifetime abstinence from tobacco and alcohol is a great benefit on the cancer side."
Sotos said finasteride would protect the presidential prostate (although the recommended dose of 1 mg is much less than that normally prescribed for prostate enlargement), and Trump is "not going to have activity-related problems, because he's not very active." However, he wondered if the president may have obstructive sleep apnea.
Presidents have suffered from a long list of medical challenges while in office, even in the modern era. Four died of apparent natural causes and four others were assassinated. And they've suffered a wide variety of serious ailments in the White House:
.Pneumonia (Washington)
.Stroke (Wilson)
.Depression (Pierce)
.Kidney disease (Arthur)
.Addison's disease and severe back pain (Kennedy)
.Gallbladder disease (Lyndon Johnson)
.Kidney stones (Andrew Johnson)
.Possible lead poisoning from an unremoved bullet (Jackson).
Hale, the New York internist, said medical threats facing Trump in light of his condition include dementia, diabetes, and cardiovascular and kidney problems.
"You can't take two statins and eat a cheeseburger and think you come out even," she said. "I wonder about mini-strokes. You slowly get dim-witted, and you end up with heart failure because you have microvascular disease."
With the sole exception of Trump, all six presidents since 1861 who were over the age of 64 in office suffered from notable medical problems during their terms. These include Harry Truman's breathing difficulties (Harry Truman) and George H.W. Bush's atrial fibrillation that required two days of hospitalization. Most seriously, a stroke debilitated Woodrow Wilson, and Dwight Eisenhower endured a heart attack, stroke, and intestinal surgery. More recently, Ronald Reagan not only survived a serious bullet wound but also underwent a colectomy for cancer as well as prostate surgery.
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