Barack Obamas first medical: president smokes too much and should improve diet

Published: 7:00AM GMT 01 March 2010

US President Barack Obama waves as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House on his lapse to Washington Photo: REUTERS

The arch executive, who has endured an burdensome initial year in the White House and yearlong battles with congressional Republicans, was differently spoken in glorious health and fit for duty.

The White House physician, Navy Capt. Jeffrey Kuhlman, pronounced Mr Obama should hang with "smoking relinquishment efforts," the make use of of nicotine gum, and come behind in Aug 2011 after he turns 50.

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Mr Obama"s cholesterol levels have crept up to equivocal high and he should change his diet accordingly, according to a inform the White House expelled after the 90-minute hearing at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. While at the facility, he visited twelve troops use members reception diagnosis and reconstruction for injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The boss is the design of health, cooking medium portions and exercises regularly. He is an zealous basketball player and golfer. The somewhat towering cholesterol levels, tendonitis in his left knee and occasional smoking were the usually negatives noted.

Mr Obama pronounced at a Jun headlines discussion that he still had an occasional cigarette. It was his initial open admission that he hadn"t kicked the habit. He chews nicotine resin to equivocate unchanging smoking, and his alloy pronounced that should continue.

Dr Kuhlman additionally pronounced the boss should cgange his diet to move his LDL, or bad cholesterol, next 130. At the time of his last exam, Mr Obama"s sum cholesterol was 173, whilst his LDL was 96 and HDL, or great cholesterol, was 68.

This time, sum cholesterol was up to 209, with HDL down somewhat at 62. LDL was up to 138. Borderline high cholesterol starts at 200, with LDL deliberate in the same difficulty at 130.

Dr Kuhlman pronounced Mr Obama"s last checkup was in Jul 2008 when he was seen by the in attendance medicine to Congress when Mr Obama was an Illinois senator. During the 2008 White House race, his debate expelled a matter from his longtime Chicago alloy observant Mr Obama was in glorious health when carefully thought about in Jan 2007.

The inform pronounced Mr Obama is 6-foot-1 and weighs 180 pounds in boots and practice clothing. His beat rate is 56, that is really good, as is his red blood vigour - 105 over 62. The alloy pronounced Mr Obama"s prophesy was 20/20 in both eyes for both area and nearby vision.

The boss was checked for and found free of colon cancer with a practical colonoscopy, a indicate that avoids the some-more invasive visible investigation with a camera device that is upheld in to the large intestine.