{"id":163685,"date":"2025-12-02T03:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163685\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:35:07","slug":"trump-had-preventative-screening-mri-on-heart-abdomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163685\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump had preventative screening MRI on heart, abdomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s doctor says the president had MRI imaging on his heart and abdomen in October as part of a preventative screening for men his age, according to a memo from the physician released by the White House on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Barbabella said in a statement that Trump\u2019s physical exam included \u201cadvanced imaging\u201d that is \u201cstandard for an executive physical\u201d in Trump\u2019s age group. Barbabella concluded that the cardiovascular and abdominal imaging was \u201cperfectly normal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of this imaging is preventative: to identify issues early, confirm overall health, and ensure he maintains long-term vitality and function,\u201d the doctor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The White House released Barbabella&#8217;s memo after Trump on Tuesday said he would release the results of the scan. He and the White House have said the scan was \u201cpart of his routine physical examination\u201d, but had declined until Monday to detail why Trump had an MRI during his physical in October at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre or on what part of his body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s quite a bit of detail,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday when announcing the memo&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican president said Monday during an exchange with reporters as he travelled back to Washington from Florida that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/01\/trump-says-hell-release-mri-results-doesnt-know-what-was-scanned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the results of the MRI <\/a>were \u201cperfect\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to have it released, I\u2019ll release it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump added that he has \u201cno idea\u201d on what part of his body he got the MRI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just an MRI,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat part of the body? It wasn\u2019t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctors typically order an MRI to help diagnose symptoms or to monitor an ongoing health problem. So-called &#8220;preventive\u201d cardiac and abdominal MRIs are not part of routine screening recommendations. What Trump\u2019s doctor called an \u201cexecutive physical\u201d generally refers to adding extra, non-routine tests, including MRIs to pricey and lengthy exams, not covered by insurance, that are marketed to wealthy people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s doctor says the president had MRI imaging on his heart and abdomen in October as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,64,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-163685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north-america","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-us-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}