President Donald Trump's chronic venous insufficiency diagnosis has pushed an everyday vein condition into the national conversation, giving millions of older Americans and their caregivers a reason to learn what leg swelling really says about ageing health.
The renewed focus follows a New York Times opinion piece by Dr Jonathan Reiner, a George Washington University professor of medicine and former cardiologist to Dick Cheney, who posed seven questions about the 80-year-old president's health and wrote that the public had 'been kept in the dark too long'. He also called for a congressional commission to examine the questions, which range from the president's daytime sleepiness to why 22 consultants took part in his most recent check-up.
