President Donald Trump says he is taking a higher daily dose of aspirin than doctors typically recommend, citing concerns about heart health, according to an interview published today in the Wall Street Journal.
“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said in the interview. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
Trump, 79, is the second-oldest person to serve as president, following his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, who was 82 when he left office after dropping his 2024 reelection bid amid questions about his fitness for the job.
The president’s health has drawn increased public attention in recent months after bruises were observed on his hands, reports that he underwent imaging exams in October, and instances in which he appeared to close his eyes during public events.
According to the Mayo Clinic, daily aspirin use can reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke in some people over the age of 60, with a low-dose regimen most commonly defined as 81 milligrams.
Trump’s physician, Sean Barbabella, told the Journal that the president is taking 325 milligrams of aspirin daily for cardiac prevention, a dose that is four times higher than the standard low-dose recommendation.
The White House has previously said the bruising on Trump’s hands is the result of frequent handshaking. Officials also described the imaging exam reported in October as preventative.
Addressing those reports, Trump and Barbabella clarified in the interview that the president underwent a CT scan, not an MRI. Barbabella said doctors initially considered either test but opted for a CT scan “to definitively rule out any cardiovascular issues.”
The scan revealed no abnormalities, Barbabella said.
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First they try to hide he had scanning, then he says he had a MRI, and he actually had a CT scan. What a complete dumbell.
Neither aspirin nor anticoagulants are “blood thinners”. It’s a stupid term. In fact, aspirin inhibits platelet aggregation and anticoagulants inhibit coagulation. The President, and the people who read YWN articles, don’t have any understanding of basic high school biology, not to mention government, diplomacy, or common courtesy.
if more is better, why not take the whole bottle?! aspirin is cheap and relatively harmless, but low dose therapy is based on actual research, not the opinions of an untrained layman. (and the broad recommendation for low dose therapy was rescinded a couple of years ago, because it was not deemed beneficial for most people without risk factors.) self-medicating is generally frowned upon by the medical community.
The only stupid one here is whoever wrote this article, and the commenters who agreed with it. What the aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks does it matter what “doctors typically recommend”? A normal person doesn’t do what “doctors typically recommend” for people in general, but what HIS doctor recommends, for HIM.
A particular idiot is commenter “shloime”, who made an irrelevant comment about “self-medicating”, and the “opinions of an untrained layman”. Even if you were right, what has that got to do with the price of fish? The interview was with Trump’s DOCTOR. It was his DOCTOR who said what dose he was taking. You have a real chutzpah if you think you have a right to have a problem with that.
Trump has a physician who I am sure is quite qualified.Medical decisions are based on statistical evidence.And there is a trend to personalize medicine.I hope that is the reason behind Trump taking a large dose of ASA.
Sounds to me like a typical 80 year old who has trouble facing the inevitable.. A quite common problem. While Britain has a king the same age, they don’t let him run the government. As Biden demonstrated, there is a reason most people that age retire.
@millhouse: you too can learn to read for comprehension, and then you too can aspire to be a “particular idiot”, instead of a general-purpose one. start by reading what president donald trump himself posted and work your way up from there.