Reacting to Donald Trump’s admission that he consumes daily doses of aspirin well beyond what his doctors have recommended, Dr. Vin Gupta told an MS NOW host on Friday that the president’s bid to have as thin a blood as possible likely will lead to added health risks.
On New Year’s Day, the Wall Street Journal reported that there are growing concerns at the White House, where staffers admit they have witnessed the president’s health in decline.
In an interview with the Journal, the president discussed his aspirin regimen and pointed out, “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
That led MS NOW host Laura Barrón-López to ask Gupta, a pulmonologist, “Doctor, the Wall Street Journal was also reporting that Trump’s skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi, his attorney general, caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring while giving him a high five at the RNC convention. In addition to that, Trump told the Journal that he is taking 325mg daily of aspirin. That’s much higher than was recommended by his physician. He said that aspirin is ‘good for thinning out the blood. I don’t want thick blood.’ What is your reaction to all of this?”
“It’s hard to know, hard to speculate,” he began. “I’m sure many of your viewers have a loved one, or they themselves have taken aspirin for a period of time. Maybe they’re on it daily or for a short term. 325msg aspirin? That’s full dose aspirin. That’s common, very short term after a cardiac procedure, after, say, a heart event. If you ever had a heart attack, you might get 325 of aspirin, but you stop after maybe 1 or 2 doses and then you’re put on a baby aspirin, 81mg, because the risk benefit of 325, frankly, as we’ve learned more over the years, the risk benefit veers towards risk.”
“There’s GI [gastrointestinal] bleeding, there’s easy bruising, as the president claims that on 325 aspirin versus 81 gives you the best of benefits in terms of making sure that your blood is, you know, to use the president’s term, as thin as possible and also minimizing the risk of bleeding, especially gastrointestinal bleeding. “
“There’s a reason we do 81 of aspirin, not 325,” he remarked. “So the fact is that his doctors are appropriate in this, in this particular case to recommend decreasing that dose. So they’re right.”
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