Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Barack Obama
is in excellent health, according to a statement from his doctor, released by
the campaign.
Besides being an "intermittent smoker," Sen.
Barack Obama is in excellent health, his doctor says.
Obama, 46, last saw Dr. David Scheiner in January
2007, shortly before he declared he was running for president.
Scheiner, who has been Obama's primary doctor since
1987, observed that the
"In short, his examination showed him to be in
excellent health," Scheiner said.
Obama "exercised regularly, often jogging three
miles. His diet was balanced with good intake of roughage and fluids. ... On
physical examination, his blood pressure was 90/60 and pulse 60/minute,"
Scheiner wrote.
The
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee
for president, released his health records last week.
McCain's doctors also described him as being in
"excellent health," despite a history of skin cancer, and said there
appears to be no physical reason why the 71-year-old candidate could not carry
out the duties of the office.
Obama released a one-page statement from his primary
care physician. He did not release any medical records or make his doctors
available to the media.
By contrast, McCain made more than 1,000 pages of
medical documents available to journalists, including CNN's chief medical
correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Four of McCain's doctors held a conference
call with reporters after the records were made available.
McCain has had four malignant melanomas removed. Three
of them -- on his left shoulder, left arm and left nasal wall -- were limited
to the top skin layer and were not invasive. They were removed in 1993, 2000
and 2002.
But a fourth melanoma proved to be invasive and was removed from his left lower temple in 2000, said Dr. John D. Eckstein, an internist who has been overseeing McCain's treatment for 16 years at the Mayo Clinic's campus in Scottsdale, Arizona.
source: washington.com
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