Elizabeth Warren releases medical exam results, doctor says she is 'very healthy'

[BeyondGeography]

(CNN) - Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign on Friday released the results of the senator's most recent annual physical exam, as well as a letter from her doctor that said Warren is a "very healthy 70 year old woman" with no medical conditions that would prevent her from serving as president.

Warren's latest physical was conducted on January 14, according to her long-time physician, Dr. Beverly Woo of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Woo said that the exam showed Warren's blood pressure, heart rate and blood tests were all normal, her cholesterol was "excellent," and that Warren also had a mammogram to screen for breast cancer. Warren is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 129 pounds, and received a flu shot in October, Woo wrote in the letter.

Woo said that Warren's one medical condition is hypothyroidism, and that she takes levothyroxine every day to restore her thyroid hormones to normal levels. Hypothyroidism is a condition where the thyroid doesn't produce enough of certain hormones. It most often affects women who are middle-age and older, according to Mayo Clinic.
"Senator Warren has never smoked, used drugs or had any problem with alcohol use. She exercises regularly and follows a healthy diet despite her very busy schedule," Woo wrote in the letter. "In summary, Senator Elizabeth Warren is a very healthy 70 year old woman. There are no medical conditions or health problems that would keep her from fulfilling the duties of the President of the United States."

...The campaign's disclosure of Warren's medical exam comes as several of the top Democratic presidential candidates, who are in their 70s -- along with President Donald Trump, who is 73 -- have faced questions about their physical fitness.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, 77, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78, have also pledged to release their medical records before the Iowa caucuses in early February...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-physical-exam/index.html

[NurseJackie]

1. Thank you, EW!

Our party needs to nominate someone who's healthy and who can withstand the rigors of campaigning AND the rigors and challenges of the office itself. Basically, it's my firm and well-considered belief that if a candidate isn't healthy enough to campaign, then they aren't healthy enough to serve in a very high-stress and sleep-deprived job with long and irregular hours.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Not that coffee is bad for you, but here's a funny bit about Warren and coffee

So when she returned to Washington in 2008 and became chairwoman of the oversight panel, the mandated monthly report became a monthly media tour. It would begin before dawn with an aide bringing her an Egg McMuffin but no coffee—“Can you imagine me on coffee?!,” she once asked an aide who asked why she didn’t drink it.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/12/warren-obama-2020-228068

[Demsrule86]

2. I never worry about this sort of thing...this is why we have a vice president...but women in this

as in most things are held to a higher standard than men.

[duforsure]

4. Now demands for

King Laughingstocks health records , all of them, be released for the public to know he actually is fit for office, but he can't because he knows he isn't. She should pounce on that over and over again with all the other candidates.