{"id":115396,"date":"2025-10-11T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115396\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:25:07","slug":"donald-trump-in-exceptional-health-his-doctor-says-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115396\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump in \u2018exceptional health\u2019, his doctor says \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

US president Donald Trump<\/a> is in \u201cexceptional health\u201d, his doctor said after he underwent a check-up that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump spent roughly three hours at the hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, for what his doctor, navy captain Sean Barbabella, called a \u201cscheduled follow-up evaluation\u201d that was a \u201cpart of his ongoing health maintenance plan\u201d.<\/p>\n

While there, the president also got his yearly flu shot, as well as a Covid-19 booster vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Donald J Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance,\u201d Capt Barbabella wrote in a one-page memo released by the White House.<\/p>\n

The doctor noted in the memo that the evaluation helped prepare for Mr Trump\u2019s upcoming overseas trips and included advanced imaging, lab testing and preventive health assessments.<\/p>\n

The president is travelling to the Middle East this weekend and is scheduled to fly to Asia at the end of this month.<\/p>\n

Capt Barbabella also said he evaluated Mr Trump\u2019s cardiac age, which was about 14 years younger than his chronological age.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump is 79 and was the oldest US president at his inauguration.<\/p>\n

The White House this week initially described Mr Trump\u2019s Walter Reed visit as a \u201croutine yearly check-up\u201d, although he had his annual physical in April.<\/p>\n

The president then called it a \u201csemi-annual physical\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump\u2019s April physical found that he was \u201cfully fit\u201d to serve as commander in chief.<\/p>\n

\"USUS president Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Photograph: Alex Brandon\/AP <\/p>\n

The three-page summary of the exam done by Capt Barbabella then said he had lost 9kg (20lbs) since a medical exam in June 2020 and said he has an \u201cactive lifestyle\u201d that \u201ccontinues to contribute significantly\u201d to the wellbeing of the president.<\/p>\n

In July, the White House announced that Mr Trump had recently undergone a medical check-up after noticing \u201cmild swelling\u201d in his lower legs and was found to have a condition common in older adults that causes blood to pool in his veins.<\/p>\n

Tests by the White House medical unit showed that Mr Trump has chronic venous insufficiency, which occurs when little valves inside the veins that normally help move blood against gravity gradually lose the ability to work properly.<\/p>\n

At the April physical, Mr Trump also passed a short screening test to assess different brain functions.<\/p>\n

Presidents have large discretion over what health information they choose to release to the public.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump\u2019s summary from his April exam included information about his weight, body mass index, past surgeries, mental health screenings, cholesterol levels and blood pressure.<\/p>\n

When spokesperson Karoline Leavitt discussed the results of his chronic venous insufficiency diagnosis from the briefing room, she noted that the White House was disclosing details of the check-up to dispel rumours about Mr Trump\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

At the time, Mr Trump was frequently observed with bruising on his hand.<\/p>\n

The Republican president has also repeatedly used the issue of health as a political cudgel.<\/p>\n

He repeatedly questioned the mental and physical health of his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, and pointed out that he has undergone cognitive testing that Mr Biden had not.<\/p>\n

Mr Biden has brushed aside those criticisms and said he was fit to serve, but he dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House after a disastrous debate with Mr Trump raised doubts about his fitness for office. \u2013 AP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president Donald Trump is in \u201cexceptional health\u201d, his doctor said after he underwent a check-up that included…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,6221,107,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-115396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-trump-presidency","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}