NCS medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner on Friday mentioned President Donald Trump’s rationalization of his aspirin use “makes no sense.”
Trump, 79, told The Wall Street Journal that he has a cause for taking a excessive dose of the drug in opposition to the recommendation of his docs and regardless of the seen bruising it’s precipitated on his fingers.
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“I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart,” he advised the newspaper. “Does that make sense?”
Reiner mentioned it doesn’t ― noting that blood thinners similar to aspirin don’t actually “thin” the blood, as Trump appears to suppose.
“It’s not like changing something from gumbo to chicken soup,” he mentioned. “It doesn’t make it thinner. It makes you less likely to clot.”
Reiner, who was a longtime heart specialist for the late former Vice President **** Cheney, mentioned many sufferers had been as soon as given aspirin to stop coronary heart assaults, however that recommendation has modified through the years, particularly for folks over 70.
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“Not only is there no benefit in terms of just primary prevention ― trying to prevent a cardiac event by giving them aspirin ― that there can be hazard,” he mentioned. “And the hazard can be bleeding, significant bleeding.”
Trump, he famous, advised the Journal that he’s taking 325 mg of aspirin day by day.
“But the dosage that we use for patients even with documented coronary artery disease is a quarter that, is 81 mg per day,” Reiner mentioned. “So why is the president taking an unorthodox dose of aspirin?”
Trump, he identified, has been often seen with bruises on his fingers. He’s typically used bandages and concealer to cowl them up, as on this picture from December:
A bandage is seen on the hand of President Donald Trump whereas he walks the purple carpet earlier than the forty eighth Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 7 on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Julia Demaree Nikhinson through Associated Press
The White House has mentioned the bruising is because of each aspirin use and frequent handshaking.
However, The Wall Street Journal mentioned there have been “several instances” during which his hand has been lower, resulting in bleeding that has “alarmed” witnesses. One such incident occurred on the 2024 Republican National Convention when Pam Bondi ― future lawyer basic ― high-fived Trump, nicking him with a hoop within the course of.
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Trump within the WSJ interview dismissed it as a “slight little cut.”
The bruises, and use of concealer to cowl them, have grow to be an everyday a part of his look. The president admitted that his docs need him on the decrease dosage of 81 mg per day, however mentioned he’s ignoring that recommendation as a result of he’s “a little superstitious.”
That revelation baffled Reiner.
“If you were bruising a lot, and your doctor says you’re on too much aspirin, why wouldn’t you go down to the lower dose?” he puzzled. “It makes no sense to me.”
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