The secretary of the president’s press states that the bruises in the hands are consistent with the damage caused by a frequent hand and the use of aspirin.
The chronic venous insufficiency was diagnosed with Donald Trump, announced the White House Thursday (17/07), after days of speculation on the photographs that showed bruises in the hands of the President of the United States.
After swelling his legs recently, Trump suffered a “complete exam” that included vascular tests, according to the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt.
Leavitt said that the bruise in Trump’s hand was consistent with “damage to the frequent stringations of the hands” and the use of aspirin – which, he said, takes “cardiovascular prevention”.
Trump, 79 years old, has always praised his good health – and once he described himself as “the healthiest president ever”.
Chronic venous insufficiency occurs when the veins of the legs cannot pump the blood into the heart, causing the accumulation of lower limbs, which can become swollen.
The veins and the valves “push the blood up and outside the leg”, Back to the Heart, explains to the BBC Meryl Logan, assistant professor of vascular surgery at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States.
The blood flowing from the legs to the heart moves against gravity, which can make this process difficult.
“Therefore, chronic venous insufficiency occurs when these veins and valves do not work and the blood returns to the legs,” he says.
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Leavitt said that “there was no evidence of deep venous thrombosis or arterial disease” – and that all the exam results were “within normal borders”.
According to a note from the doctor of the White House Sean Balvabella, released to the press, the condition is “benign and ordinary”, especially in people over the age of 70.
Further exams have shown “no sign of heart failure, renal impairment or systemic disease” in Trump, said Barbabella in the note, which confirmed the information announced by Leavitt.
In general, Trump is in “excellent health”, the doctor wrote.
The photographers captured what seemed to be Trump’s swollen legs during the FIFA World Cup final in New Jersey on July 13, with the following photos taken at the beginning of this week showing bruises in his hands during a meeting with Prime Minister Bahrein Salman Bin Isa at Khalifa in the White House.
A bruise in the president’s hand had already been photographed during a meeting with the French president Emmanuel Macron in February.
The swollen legs and bruises generated online speculation and voices that the president could suffer from a disease that had not been disclosed.
After an annual physical examination of April, Balvabella wrote that Trump “presents cognitive and physical health”.
Trump was 78 years old and seven months when he entered office for his second term in January, becoming the oldest president to swear in the United States.
Risk factors
The doctors told the BBC that they agreed with the evaluation of Balvabella on the severity of chronic venous insufficiency.
“It can be associated with serious conditions, but in itself it is not a serious condition and is very common,” he tells BBC Matthew Edwards, president of the Wake Forest University Vascular Surgery Department.
“I would say that probably between 10% and 35% of people in his age would have this condition.”
Experts say that other risk factors include overweight, history of blood clots and jobs that require patients to represent long periods.
The use of compression stockings made to measure can help control the condition and experts also recommend patients to raise their legs at night.
“I tell my patients to use a good cream lotion in the legs and feet every day and that control other potential risk factors such as obesity,” explains Logan.
The bruises in the hand of the president
Chronic venous insufficiency affects only on the lower part of the body, therefore the condition has nothing to do with the bruises seen in the hands of the president, who has generated speculation in the last few days.
The president’s doctor said that the bruise was the result of the taking of the hand and a side effect of the use of aspirin, a medicine that can help prevent heart attacks, blood clots and strokes.
Edwards claims to agree with the explanation of the doctor of the White House that Trump’s intake of aspirin, combined with his age, can be responsible for the bruises.
“We are more likely to bruise as we age, and this is very common in people who take aspirin and other agents to tune in the blood.”
“I’m sure someone squeezes your hand quite strong (you can have a bruise),” explains Edwards.
“It would be a very strong hand grip.”
Source: Terra
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