After a whiplash-inducing morning of mixed messages, Donald J. Trump
on Wednesday opened a small window into some of the results from his
most recent physical examination, revealing that he is overweight and
takes a statin, a type of drug that lowers cholesterol.
Mr. Trump gave the quick synopsis on Dr. Mehmet Oz’s
television show after the Republican presidential nominee’s aides had
said that he would, then that he would not, broach the topic with the
doctor on the show.
A news release from the “Dr. Oz Show”
said that Dr. Oz, “as all physicians do when seeing a patient for the
first time,” took the candidate “through a full review of systems
including the following: nervous system; head and neck; hormone levels;
cardiovascular health and related medications; respiratory health;
gastrointestinal health; bladder or prostate health; dermatological
health; history of cancer.”
The
release also said they reviewed “family medical history — occurrence of
Alzheimer’s or dementia, heart disease, cancer in relatives.”
A
Trump aide said that Dr. Oz, who often focuses on obesity, declared Mr.
Trump “slightly overweight” at 236 pounds (although earlier reports,
including an article in The New York Times, put his weight at 267
pounds).
Late
last year, Mr. Trump’s doctor, Harold N. Bornstein, wrote an unusual,
brief note that he later acknowledged to NBC was partly dictated by the
candidate. In that note, Mr. Bornstein described Mr. Trump as in
impeccable health, and also said that he had lost 15 pounds over the
previous 12 months.
Democrats
have over the last few days seized on Mr. Trump’s weight as an issue,
with Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader, taking note of it on
Tuesday, and David Plouffe, a former senior adviser to President Obama,
posting on Twitter that the Republican nominee would rival William
Howard Taft in terms of portliness.
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