HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is in excellent health, his doctor said on Friday [1-12-18] after his first comprehensive physical exam since he was elected… The brief statement did not include any basic information about Mr. Trump’s health, including his weight, blood pressure or cholesterol levels. The president’s doctors did not indicate what tests they performed during the exam or whether Mr. Trump, 71, was taking medications.
But the White House has promised that information about those topics will be disclosed on Tuesday, when Dr. Jackson joins Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, during a briefing for the news media.
Officials had said it would take a few days for test results to be completed. Mr. Trump is spending the three-day holiday weekend in Palm Beach, Fla., at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
It remains unclear whether doctors performed any mental acuity, cognitive or neurological tests during the president’s physical exam. Questions about his mental health intensified this month after the publication of a book in which his closest advisers are said to have questioned his mental abilities. That prompted Mr. Trump to insist that he is a ‘stable genius.’
It is also unclear whether Mr. Trump had tests common for men of his age, such as a treadmill stress test to detect heart problems… Annual medical exams for the president are a tradition that goes back decades.”
-Michael D. Shear and Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., “Trump Is in ‘Excellent Health,’ Doctor Says After Exam,” The New York Times online, Jan. 12, 2018