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Trump is ‘fully fit’ and manages high cholesterol, says White House physician

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Donald Trump speaks to the media on board Air Force One on the way to Miami, Florida, on Saturday. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

Donald Trump – the oldest person to ever be elected US president – controls high cholesterol with medication and has elevated blood pressure but is “fully fit”, White House physician Sean Barbella said in a report released on Sunday.

The US navy captain’s report was published two days after Trump underwent a routine physical. It also said he was up to date on all recommended vaccines – despite his national health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr having spent years sowing doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccination.

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