Washington — President Trump underwent “superior imaging” of his stomach and cardiovascular system for “preventative” causes, the White Home stated Monday, someday after the president instructed reporters that he had “no concept” what physique components his MRI lined throughout his October bodily at Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Middle.
The president stated Sunday that the MRI carried out in October wasn’t for his mind and the outcomes had been “good,” though he did not know what they lined.
“No concept, it was simply an MRI,” Mr. Trump stated Sunday when requested about what a part of the physique the take a look at lined. “What a part of the physique? It wasn’t the mind, as a result of I took a cognitive take a look at and I aced it.”
He additionally stated Sunday he would launch the outcomes from his MRI.
“As a part of President Donald Jr. Trump’s complete government bodily, superior imaging was carried out as a result of males in his age group profit from a radical analysis of cardiovascular and stomach well being,” reads a letter dated Dec. 1 from Sean Barbabella, doctor to the president. “The aim of this imaging is preventative: to determine points early, affirm general well being, and guarantee he maintains long-term vitality and performance.”
Barbabella stated the president’s cardiovascular imaging “is completely regular,” and his stomach imaging “can also be completely regular.”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt learn Barbabella’s letter to reporters in Monday’s press briefing.
Mr. Trump underwent a bodily examination in early October, six months after a bodily in April, however the MRI was not talked about initially.
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