Medical experts say that Joe Biden — as well as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump — are part of the population known as 'super-agers
Joe Biden was lying on the operating table and about to get surgery for his second brain aneurysm when the doctor told him he might not recover.
The two brain aneurysms that Biden suffered in 1988 were fully treated and he showed no signs of mental trouble as a result, said Dr. Neal Kassell, who performed the surgery on Biden three decades ago. Nor did Biden suffer any brain damage that would might come back to haunt him in old age, Kassell said.“He is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago. I haven’t seen any change,” Kassell said.
With the prospect that the next president may be the oldest ever to take office, a team of researchers with the American Federation for Aging Research released aThe answer: Not very. But “there was nothing we could see that would lead us to believe that the age of an individual, in and of itself, should be a disqualifying factor to run for president,” Olshansky said.true
“They all belong to a sub-group of the population that is privileged. And privileged sub-groups tend to live longer and better than the average,” Olshansky said. “Despite Bernie Sanders perhaps claiming otherwise, he’s part of the 1 percent. Actually, it’s more like one-one-hundredth of one percent.”
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