Warren releases medical report showing her in 'excellent health'
December 6, 2019Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign on Friday released a medical report from her physician stating that the Massachusetts Democrat “is in excellent health” as she competes for her party’s 2020 nomination.
“Senator Warren is in excellent health and has been throughout the 20 years I have served as her physician,” wrote Beverly Woo, an internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who has treated Warren as her primary care physician since 1999.
“Over that time period, she has had regular periodic health examinations and has had all recommended tests for health maintenance and prevention,” she added.
Warren’s “only medical condition” is hypothyroidism, Woo wrote, for which she takes a daily 0.88 milligram dose of the thyroid medicine Levothyroxine.
The senator’s most recent physical examination in January “was normal,” with her blood pressure level at 115/57 and a cardiac exam showing a regular heart rate of 70 beats per minute. Her height measured 5 feet, 8 inches, and she weighed in at 129 pounds.
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Warren had an “excellent cholesterol profile,” and the results of blood tests conducted at the physical were “all entirely normal.” A mammogram screening for breast cancer in January was also “normal,” Woo wrote.
According to the report, Warren has “never smoked, used drugs or had any problem with alcohol use,” and she “exercises regularly and follows a healthy diet.”
“In summary, Senator Elizabeth Warren is a very healthy 70 year old woman,” Woo concluded. “There are no medical conditions or health problems that would keep her from fulfilling the duties of the President of the United States.”
Warren’s decision to make public her medical records comes amid long-lingering concerns in certain corners of the Democratic Party about the age and health of some of its leading White House aspirants.
Among the four primary candidates who consistently achieve the most support in public polling, three are septuagenarians: 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden, 78-year-old Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Warren.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana rounds out the top-tier of Democratic hopefuls and is also the youngest contender in the broader field at 37.
Biden has faced repeated questions about his mental acuity and readiness to spar with Trump on the debate stage, and Sanders suffered a heart attack in October. Both men have pledged to release their medical records — Biden before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses in February, and Sanders before the end of the year.
Source: https://www.politico.com/