As the Trump administration fields a global pandemic and nationwide protests, the White House Wednesday afternoon released President Donald Trump's latest physical results, with his physician writing that Trump 'remains healthy' and experienced no side effects from taking hydroxychloroquine
As the Trump administration fields a global pandemic and nationwide protests, the White House Wednesday afternoon released President Donald Trump's latest physical results, with his physician writing that Trump"remains healthy" and experienced no side effects from taking hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against the novel coronavirus.
Trump's heart was also monitored via an electrocardiogram, or EKG, while he was taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug unproven to treat COVID-19 that the president repeatedly promoted but that has, separately, been linked to increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias. Patients taking any medication that have a known cardiac side effect generally will get an EKG prior to beginning the medication, then periodically at the discretion of their physician.
Trump did make an unannounced trip to the hospital in November, when the White House said he was completing"portions" of his annual physical exam, in a visit that lasted more than two hours. Exam results at the time showed that at 6-foot 3-inches tall, Trump had a body mass index of 30.4, passing the official threshold of being considered obese. He weighed 243 pounds -- up seven pounds from September 2016, before he became president. Results also showed that Trump had increased his daily dose of rosuvastatin, a medication used to treat high cholesterol.
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