NEW YORK (AP) – Michael Bloomberg is in “outstanding health,” but a letter from his doctor released Thursday notes that the 77-year-old Democrat is receiving treatment for several medical conditions, including an irregular heartbeat.
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Bloomberg takes a beta blocker and medication to control his cholesterol, Dr. Stephen D. Sisson wrote, adding that he had “small skin cancers” removed and receives treatment for arthritis and heartburn, “both of which are well controlled.” The report also notes that Bloomberg had a stent put in his heart to clear an artery in 2000 and “has had normal cardiac stress testing annually since then.”
“Mr. Bloomberg is a 77-year-old man in outstanding health. There are no medical concerns, present or looming, that would prevent him from serving as President of the United States,” wrote Sisson, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, where the New York billionaire has been treated for years.
Last year, Bloomberg developed an “atrial fibrillation,” a type of irregular heartbeat that can increase the risk of stroke or a blood clot, for which he takes a blood thinner, Sisson said.
The presidential candidates’ health has taken on more significance in 2020 given the unusually high age of several White House hopefuls. President Donald Trump is 73 years old, while three of the four top-tier Democrats are in their 70s: Bernie Sanders is the oldest at 78, Joe Biden is 77 and Elizabeth Warren is 70.
Warren last week became the first Democratic White House hopeful to share a letter from her doctor, revealing that her “only medical condition” is an underactive thyroid gland, which is easily treated by medication. Sanders, who was briefly forced off the campaign trail after suffering a heart attack in early October, said he would release his medical records by the end of the month, while Biden last week reaffirmed his pledge to release his medical records before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucus.
Sisson wrote that Bloomberg is in “great physical shape,” noting that he exercises several times a week, plays golf “avidly” and maintains a pilot’s license. At 5 feet, 7 inches tall, he weighed 165 pounds with blood pressure at 120 over 70 during a July examination.
Sisson noted that Bloomberg is a nonsmoker without a history of substance use disorder or unhealthy alcohol use. “His diet and health habits are excellent,” he wrote.
TOO BAD IF THEY CALL IT AGEISM! IT IS A FACT OF LIFE THAT ALL HUMANS ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING TOWARD DEATH, AND THE LONGER ONE HAS BEEN ON THIS ROAD, THE CLOSER HE IS TO THE END! BLOOMBERG’S DEATH IS INEVITABLE BECAUSE HE IS MORTAL, AND CAN BE PRESUMED NEARER BECAUSE HE IS GETTING ON IN YEARS!
Hardly matters. He is simply too old.
We have seen with both Presidents Trump and Reagan that an old guy cannot do the job.
Professor, txs for the report , but your patient is as exciting as diet oatmeal wafers.
I’m staying with the current fellow in the WH ; he chows on fast greasy food, is overweight, orange hairdoo, can cuss like a sailor, and has a great heart even though his pathetic haters don’t acknowledge it.
By and by, he also has done an astounding job which no president in memory has accomplished in less than 3 years under relentless assault by political and media criminals who seek his overthrow. Queens boy made good, and we love him. Kindly tell your patient that he doesn’t have a ghost of a chance , and he can nicely stuff some of his thrown ‘in- the – garbage money in my pocket..
He is too smart for a President.