{"id":11430,"date":"2016-09-15T06:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T06:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=11430"},"modified":"2016-09-15T06:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T06:29:17","slug":"hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump-give-more-details-on-their-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump-give-more-details-on-their-health.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Give More Details on Their Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Give More Details on Their Health<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Give More Details on Their Health:-<\/strong> With less than eight weeks until Election Day and pressure mounting for the candidates to give details about their health and medical histories, Donald J. Trump acknowledged on Wednesday that he was overweight and taking a cholesterol-fighting drug, and Hillary Clinton elaborated on the circumstances that led to her contracting pneumonia and the medicine she was taking to recover.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton\u2019s doctor said she \u201ccontinues to improve\u201d after contracting a \u201cmild, noncontagious\u201d form of pneumonia diagnosed on Friday, two days before she grew dizzy and was seen losing her footing while leaving a ceremony for the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a letter released by the Clinton campaign, the physician, Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, said she had evaluated Mrs. Clinton several times since Sunday, including on Wednesday. \u201cShe is recovering well with antibiotics and rest,\u201d Dr. Bardack said. \u201cShe continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After Mrs. Clinton left Sunday\u2019s Sept. 11 ceremony early, a spokesman initially said only that she had felt overheated. But after video shot by an onlooker showed Secret Service agents helping a wobbly Mrs. Clinton into a van, her campaign released a statement from Dr. Bardack saying that Mrs. Clinton had pneumonia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign has urged supporters to refrain from talking about Mrs. Clinton\u2019s health, a frequent topic of speculation among some Republicans before her pneumonia diagnosis. But at a rally in Ohio on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump said he hoped Mrs. Clinton was improving but added that she was \u201clying in bed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He also noted his ability to keep standing in an overheated room. \u201cI don\u2019t know, folks,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you think Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite fanning conspiracy theories about Mrs. Clinton\u2019s health, Mr. Trump provided scant information about his own. On Wednesday, he taped an appearance on Dr. Mehmet Oz\u2019s daytime television show in which he discussed his health to some degree, including the results of a physical last week, according to people present for the taping and a clip released by the show\u2019s publicists.<\/span><\/p>\n

But little information was available about what was said on the show, which will be broadcast on Thursday, other than that Mr. Trump, 70, said he was taking regular doses of a statin, a drug that lowers cholesterol, and gave his weight as 236 pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

At about 6-foot-2, Mr. Trump would have a body mass index of 30.3. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute defines obesity as a B.M.I. of 30 or more, and overweight as 25 to 29.9.<\/span><\/p>\n

NBC News reported that Dr. Oz pronounced Mr. Trump \u201cslightly overweight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Democrats have seized on Mr. Trump\u2019s weight this week, with Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader, noting Tuesday that he was hardly \u201cslim and trim,\u201d and David Plouffe, a former senior adviser to President Obama, suggesting on Twitter that he would rival William Howard Taft in portliness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump has yet to make public as much personal medical information as Mrs. Clinton has. Earlier this week, he said he would soon release new medical records, and he was expected to discuss the results of his physical on Dr. Oz\u2019s show. During the taping, he theatrically produced what he described as the results and allowed Dr. Oz to review them, according to the brief clip released.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until this week, the latest medical information about Mr. Trump had come in December in a letter from his longtime physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, which included a few numbers \u2014 Mr. Trump\u2019s blood pressure and PSA test score \u2014 and little else aside from superlatives and boasts. The letter also said that Mr. Trump had lost 15 pounds over the previous year, though it did not give his weight before or after.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the letter released by the Clinton campaign, Dr. Bardack said that she had examined Mrs. Clinton, 68, on Friday for a prolonged, allergy-related cough, discovered \u201csmall right middle-lobe pneumonia,\u201d put her on antibiotics and advised her \u201cto rest and modify her schedule.\u201d At the Sept. 11 ceremony, she said, Mrs. Clinton \u201cbecame overheated and dehydrated,\u201d but was \u201crehydrated and recovering nicely\u201d later that day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Criticized for concealing Mrs. Clinton\u2019s illness, her aides apologized on Monday and promised to release more information about her medical history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton canceled trips to California and Nevada this week to rest, but she planned to return to the campaign trail on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Bardack\u2019s letter also cast some new light on the persistent cough that Mrs. Clinton complained of before she was found to have pneumonia. Dr. Bardack said she had examined Mrs. Clinton on Sept. 2, a week before the pneumonia diagnosis, after Mrs. Clinton experienced a low-grade fever, congestion and fatigue. She prescribed antibiotics and rest, but Mrs. Clinton continued to travel, and over several days, \u201cher congestion worsened and she developed a cough,\u201d Dr. Bardack wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

That Monday, Mrs. Clinton had an extended coughing attack while trying to deliver a Labor Day speech in Cleveland.<\/span><\/p>\n

The details released Wednesday included that Mrs. Clinton has been taking the antibiotic Levaquin, \u201cas well as B-12 as needed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said that the information suggested Mrs. Clinton may have had the pneumonia for a longer period, and that she needed a follow-up examination and X-rays to make sure it was responding well to the antibiotics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Bardack wrote that \u201cthe remainder of her complete physical exam was normal, and she is in excellent mental condition.\u201d Her letter did not include Mrs. Clinton\u2019s height or weight.<\/span><\/p>\n

It did note, however, that in January, Mrs. Clinton developed a sinus and ear infection that caused \u201cprogressive pain in her left ear.\u201d She was treated with antibiotics as well as the placement of a myringotomy tube in her ear, and her symptoms resolved by March.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Sunday, Dr. Bardack\u2019s last public comment about Mrs. Clinton\u2019s health had come in a two-page letter in July 2015 describing her as a \u201chealthy female with hypothyroidism and seasonal allergies\u201d who was in \u201cexcellent physical condition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton has expressed frustration with what she says is a double standard, in which she is expected to adhere to traditional levels of transparency but Mr. Trump is not penalized for ignoring them. She has quickly shifted from questions about her medical records to criticizing Mr. Trump for not releasing his tax returns.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really past time for him to be held to the same standards,\u201d she told CNN on Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton\u2019s running mate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, also released a doctor\u2019s letter Wednesday, saying he was in excellent health and worked out three times a week. Dr. Brian Monahan, the attending physician to Congress, said Mr. Kaine\u2019s cholesterol and blood lipids were elevated, but made no mention of a statin drug. The upper chamber of the left side of Mr. Kaine\u2019s heart is enlarged, but Dr. Monahan noted nothing else unusual about his heart or major arteries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton\u2019s disclosures may help her campaign bat down rumors about her health that have been driven by conservative news outlets with Mr. Trump\u2019s encouragement.<\/span><\/p>\n

After her coughing fit in Cleveland, Mrs. Clinton casually told reporters on her campaign plane that she was taking more antihistamines. \u201cIt happens like twice a year, in the spring when the pollen comes, and it happens in the fall,\u201d she said. \u201cIt lasts a couple days, and then it disappears.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a long video recording that someone is compiling right now, going back decades,\u201d she added jokingly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton has tried to bounce back quickly from medical issues in the past. In 2009, she slipped in a State Department garage and fractured her elbow, but traveled to India and Thailand a few days later with her arm in a sling and her joint held together with wire and pins.<\/span><\/p>\n

She took longer to recover after dehydration brought on by a stomach virus led her to faint and hit her head on a toilet at her home in 2012. She sustained a concussion and was later found to have a blood clot in her head. Among the events she missed was testifying before Congress about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n

The timing led to widespread speculation by Republicans, who accused Mrs. Clinton of faking an illness. One Fox News contributor called it an \u201cacute Benghazi allergy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Some have expressed concern about a similar politicizing of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s current diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re hitting each other on the heads with stethoscopes to try to earn points,\u201d said Arthur L. Caplan, a professor of medical ethics at New York University.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Dr. Caplan said both candidates needed additional scrutiny, given their ages. \u201cYou\u2019ve got older candidates, so you\u2019re going to see health problems and risks detected in both of them,\u201d he said. \u201cSeventy is still the new 70.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/15\/us\/politics\/hillary-clinton-health-donald-trump.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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