NCS’s medical analyst and high heart specialist, Jonathan Reiner, is baffled by President Donald Trump‘s regimen of taking aspirin to supposedly make his blood thinner.
As reported by Mediaite, Reiner appeared on NCS’s The Lead on Thursday (January 1) to debate a brand new report from The Wall Street Journal, which claimed Trump has ignored docs’ orders to take a decrease dosage of aspirin.
“The large dose of aspirin he chooses to take daily has caused him to bruise easily, [Trump] said, and he has been encouraged by his doctors to take a lower dose,” the WSJ reported. “But Trump has declined to switch because he has been taking it for 25 years.”
“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump mentioned. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
According to Reiner, who was Dick Cheney’s former coronary heart physician, the reply is not any; that doesn’t make sense.
“That makes no sense. That actually makes nonsense,” Reiner informed NCS, per Mediaite. “So first of all, when we use any kind of anticoagulant, medications to prevent clotting, those don’t thin the blood. It’s not like changing something from gumbo to chicken soup. It doesn’t make it thinner. It makes you less likely to clot.”
He added that for a few years, aspirin remedy was used to stop coronary heart assaults, however “we’ve learned in recent years that, particularly for people over the age of 70, not only is there no benefit in terms of just primary prevention… by giving them aspirin, that there can be hazard. And the hazard can be bleeding, significant bleeding.”
Reiner touched on the claims that the President is taking 325 mg of aspirin a day, saying that’s nicely over the dosage normally prescribed to sufferers.
“The dosage that we use for patients, even with documented coronary artery disease, is a quarter of that. It’s 81 milligrams per day. So why is the President taking an unorthodox dose of aspirin?” Reiner said.
As for why Trump gained’t heed the recommendation of his personal docs, Reiner added, “It makes no sense to me.”
Trump has made headlines over the previous 12 months for the bruising on the back of his hands. The White House has beforehand attributed the bruising to the President’s use of aspirin and to frequent handshaking throughout his each day duties as Commander in Chief.
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