By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and LAURAN NEERGAARD, Related Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump not too long ago had a medical checkup after noticing “mild swelling” in his decrease legs and was discovered to have a situation frequent in older adults that causes blood to pool in his veins, the White Home mentioned Thursday.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned exams by the White Home medical unit confirmed that Trump has power venous insufficiency, which happens when little valves contained in the veins that usually assist transfer blood towards gravity steadily lose the power to work correctly.
Leavitt additionally addressed bruising on the again of Trump’s hand, seen in latest photographs coated by make-up that was not a precise match to his pores and skin tone. She mentioned the bruising was “consistent” with irritation from his “frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin.” Trump takes aspirin to scale back the chance of coronary heart assault and stroke.
The left foot and swollen ankle of President Donald Trump are pictured as he sits with Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
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The left foot and swollen ankle of President Donald Trump are pictured as he sits with Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
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She mentioned throughout her press briefing that her disclosure of Trump’s medical checkup was meant to dispel latest hypothesis concerning the 79-year-old president’s well being. Nonetheless, the announcement was notable provided that the Republican president has routinely stored secret fundamental details about his well being.
Trump in April had a complete bodily examination with greater than a dozen medical specialists. The three-page report launched then by the White Home didn’t embody a discovering of power venous insufficiency. On the time, Trump’s physician, Sean Barbabella, decided that the president’s joints and muscle tissues had a full vary of movement, with regular blood movement and no swelling.
Leavitt didn’t say when Trump first seen the swelling in his decrease legs. As a part of the president’s routine medical care and out of an “abundance of caution,” she mentioned he had a “comprehensive exam” that included vascular, decrease extremity and ultrasound testing.
She famous that power venous insufficiency is a benign situation that’s frequent in individuals over age 70.
She mentioned the exams revealed no proof of deep vein thrombosis, a extra severe medical situation through which a blood clot types in a number of of the deep veins within the physique, often within the legs. Nor was there any proof of arterial illness, she mentioned, studying a letter from Barbabella.
Folks typically are suggested to shed weight, stroll for train and elevate their legs periodically, and a few could also be suggested to put on compression stockings. Extreme circumstances over time can result in problems together with decrease leg sores known as ulcers. Blood clots are one trigger, however was dominated out, Leavitt mentioned.
Leavitt mentioned the situation wasn’t inflicting the president any discomfort. She wouldn’t talk about how he was treating the situation and instructed these particulars could be within the physician’s letter, which was later launched to the general public. However the letter was the identical as what she learn, and it didn’t embody any extra particulars.
Dr. Anahita Dua, a vascular surgeon at Mass Common Brigham who has by no means handled Trump, mentioned there isn’t any remedy for power venous insufficiency.
“The vast majority of people, probably including our president, have a mild to moderate form of it,” Dua mentioned.
Folks with the situation can cut back the swelling by carrying medical-grade compression socks or stockings, to assist the blood flow into again to the guts, or by strolling, she mentioned.
The examination the White Home disclosed Thursday included different testing that discovered no indicators of coronary heart failure, renal impairment or systemic sickness in Trump, Leavitt mentioned.
“The president remains in excellent health, which I think all of you witness on a daily basis here,” she informed reporters.
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