Posted on 01/17/2018 10:46:26 AM PST by Kaslin
Normally we defer to the diagnosis of the doctor who’s actually examined the patient, do we not?
Asked directly by Gupta at the briefing if Trump does have heart disease, [Dr. Ronny] Jackson replied, “No, he does not have heart disease.”
Gupta’s not buying it. Here he is this morning on CNN via the Free Beacon:
Sanjay Gupta declares Trump has heart disease
Does he have a leg to stand on? Well, when you Google “coronary calcium score,” one of the first results that pops up is this page from the University of Maryland Medical Center. Trump’s score, per Jackson, was 133. Here’s what U of M says about that:
“You have heart disease.” Trump’s on the low end of that range, but even the range below his qualifies as “mild heart disease” per U of M. On the other hand, according to a study from 2001 posted on the same page, the 50th percentile for men of Trump’s age is 310. He’s well below that.
I think Gupta and Jackson are more or less saying the same thing, except Gupta’s viewing the glass half-empty while Jackson’s viewing it as half-full. Because Trump’s score is decent for a 71-year-old man and because the dose of the cholesterol medicine he’s on is “very low,” they can easily reduce his calcium further with medication to lower the risk of a heart attack. He does have “coronary atherosclerosis,” Jackson acknowledged, but “heart disease” apparently seems like too strong a term to him to describe Trump’s risk. The president’s not about to keel over. Whereas Gupta is looking at the calcium numbers, at the fact that Trump is already right on the edge of qualifying as obese by BMI measurements, and at the many reports that POTUS eats fast-food detritus all day long and declaring straightforwardedly that he has heart disease. Not a worrisome case, but the numbers are what they are.
The Gupta/Jackson quibble isn’t any fun, though. All the fun this morning is coming from “girthers,” people who think there’s no way that Trump is tipping the scales at only 239 lbs, as Jackson claimed yesterday. Initially the pushback on social media among Trump-haters was of a basic “c’mon, he’s fatter than that!” variety, but within the last 12 hours a more refined conspiracy theory has emerged that Jackson and/or Trump fibbed about his height, not his weight, to fudge his BMI measurements. His New York driver’s license lists him as 6’2; Jackson has him at 6’3. Why might he and Trump want to add an inch? Because, the conspiracy theorists claim, they knew that at 6’3 and 239 lbs, Trump’s BMI would be 29.9, the absolute upper limit for being classified as overweight but not obese, which requires a BMI of 30. Measure Trump at 6’2 and 239 lbs, though, and his BMI would be … 30.7. The difference between 29.9 and 30.7 is utterly negligible but the media would have had a field day with calling Trump “obese.” And so, allege the conspiracy theorists, POTUS added a phantom inch to protect his vanity.
Twitter’s now going to spend the day circulating stuff like this:
According to Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, Trump is 75 inches tall. That's 6'3".
Obama is listed as 6'1". pic.twitter.com/1SAq7keoBP
— Alamo_on_the_rise (@AlamoOnTheRise) January 17, 2018
As you might imagine, though, the greatest disappointment among hardcore Trump-haters was Jackson’s clean bill of health for POTUS’s mental acuity. America waited breathlessly and wondered: How would Joe and Mika handle the news that their frenemy Donald is not, in fact, demented and therefore there’ll be no “25th Amendment solution” to their Trump problem? Not well, as it turns out. Not well.
Take away the hope that Trump might suddenly die, and what does the Left have? The potential emotional devastation is limitless. :)
Let's face it, Sanjay Gupta need to shove it up his ass..
Not just a tv doctor, one that works for cnn. That disqualifies him altogether in my mind.
Gupta, Gupta, Gupta.
Gotta increase all those speaking fees and appearances.
Or, could lose your license.
5.56mm
CNN rooting daily for a heart attack will now commence.
back in the day,
My doctor had me at 5’8”
USMC had me at 5’9”
Chicago Police Dept. had me at 5’7”
My current doctor has me at 5’8”.
Yup.
Although he’s now know as a CNN personality, from 1997 to 1998 Gupta was one of fifteen White House Fellows, working primarily as an advisor to then-first lady Hillary Clinton.
I see a cardiologist who's father discovered, along with a group of Japanese doctors, the importance of CoQ10 and that when people take statins there is a decrease in the body's ability to manufacture it's own CoQ10. So, supplementation is required. His son is continuing this work.
I was told by my cardiologist that my cholesterol number, which is 214 and nearly the same as Trump's, is normal and preferable to low cholesterol. Why? Because the brain needs insulation that is best supplied by the body manufacturing its own cholesterol.
I would like to see the lame-streamers bark up the statin tree.
I’m not a doctor, but I’ve played one on TV....
This guy is a fake tv Dr. along with the other two fake tv Dr.s on Fox that were all downplaying the Ebola scare when Obama was letting them all in the country.
She has end stage Parkinsons per her needing tuning up meds and 24 hour nurse hypo id’d on several websites as being injectable apo-morphine (needed for increasingly lower levels of dopamine in the brain brought on by Parkinsons) and her collapse on 9/11 memorial. She has also had a small stroke (called a “fall” in 2012 but she was admitted for a clot in the brain, and Bill himself in 2014 said it took her 6 months to recover, typical transient ischemic attack recovery) , evidenced by her special glasses at the benghazi hearings. Her constant coughing, dry hacking is a side effect of Parkinsons meds at higher doses.
You are so right about these fanatics— trying to show Trump in some way doesn’t have it together, since they cannot accept that hitlery lost and to position someone else to take on a “next” president- anything to remove the executive authority that is removing all that obama did.
Is that a function of age? Or any age?
Where can I get some?
I have a few docs I’d like to send that to.
Even though his doctors said that 0 was alright, "let's face it..," the pencil necked homo druggie has AIDS.
The left has a hard time with reality. When reality stares at them in the face, they deny it. It interferes with their world view.
What the heck is a Sanjay Gupta?
The so-called “calcium” score is NOT a major determinant of the presence of heart disease. One can check the website for the American College of Cardiology for this info, and for the algorithm that deduces heart disease.
The entire concept of calcium is based on calcified artery lesions.. and not susceptible lesions which respond to high LDL (bad) cholesterol by breaking free of the artery wall and causing a heart attack.
Calcium score was put up as a “nice to know but not substantiated as absolute risk marker” some time ago. Gupta is out of his field of knowledge and is a vegetarian paki/indian health guru clown.
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