“It’s the first time” that the American vice-president, aged 59, “publishes the results of a medical examination”relieves NPR. According to American Public Radio, the two-page report indicates that Kamala Harris is “in excellent health” and has “the physical and mental stamina necessary to successfully discharge the duties of the presidency.”
The candidate’s doctor, Joshua Simmons, specifies that his patient suffers from seasonal allergies and hives, but that she has not “no personal history of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, lung disease, neurological disorders, cancer or osteoporosis”.
The publication of this health bulletin is not innocent, Kamala Harris seeking to “use it to create a contrast with its rival”aged 78, observes NPR.
To journalists who accompanied her on Saturday, the Democrat declared that “all the presidential candidates” had published a medical bulletin, “except Donald Trump for this election cycle”. For Ms. Harris, “it is clear” that Donald Trump and his team “do not want the American people to actually see what he is doing and whether or not he is fit to serve as President of the United States”.
Cholesterol and risk of obesity
Stung, Donald Trump’s campaign claimed Saturday that the former president had regularly published medical bulletins, and that they had “all concluded that it [était] in perfect and excellent health to be president”reports The Guardian.
And his spokesperson, Steven Cheung, mocked the campaign calendar “much lighter” by Kamala Harris, who does not own “President Trump’s endurance”.
More “Trump has repeatedly refused to disclose detailed information about his health during his public life”notes the British daily. “For example, before winning the race for the White House in 2016, he provided only a four-paragraph bulletin from his personal physician”ensuring that“no person elected to the presidency” would not enjoy better health than him.
Donald Trump’s first medical exam as president nevertheless showed high cholesterol levels “worrisome” and a body mass index “which placed him at 0.1 point of the medical obesity threshold”underlines The Guardian.
