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As 79-year-old President Biden recovers from a recent diagnosis of COVID-19, some Americans may wonder about some of the other illnesses that the former US president fought over the years. not.
But first, a little more about Biden’s health.
“I have cancer … for the longest time, Delaware has the highest incidence of cancer in the country,” the president said in a speech recently.
That comment caused a great deal of confusion and controversy.
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In a November 2021 memo summarizing Biden’s health, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, a Biden doctor for more than a decade, said Biden “several localized nonmelanoma skin cancers with Mohs surgery before he took office. Was resected. “
Biden’s gait is “much harder and less fluid than it was a year ago.”
As the Associated Press recently pointed out, “these lesions were completely resected and had a clear margin,” the report continued.
The same November 2021 memo on Biden’s health pointed out other issues that doctors followed. Increased “frequency and severity” of throat cleansing and coughing while Biden is giving a speech. And the fact that Biden’s gait is “harder and less fluid than it was about a year ago.”
His orthopedic history suggests “some rational explanations” for this, doctors said.
The memo also states that Biden has atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the heart beats a little abnormally.
This is a sample of some other health conditions that the President of the United States has endured in their lives-certainly not a complete list.
Chronic disease of JFK
John F. Kennedy (JFK) was the youngest president of the United States to die during his tenure and suffered from many chronic illnesses throughout his life.
As many sources and biographers have pointed out, these were kept away from the general public during the presidency so that he could maintain an image of youthful vitality.
Kennedy fought chronic back pain after suffering a back injury while in Harvard in 1937. It required multiple surgeries.
“The aura of vitality believed in the fact that he was clearly unhealthy from an early age,” said doctors T. Glenn Pait, MD and Justin T. Dowdy, MD in The Journal of Neurosurgery: I wrote in Spine’s article.
However, the most serious condition of JFK was Addison’s disease, an endocrine disease diagnosed in 1947 at the age of 30.
Common symptoms of Addison’s disease include fatigue, weight loss, and abdominal pain. Nevertheless, the characteristic symptom is hyperpigmentation of the sun-exposed areas of the skin.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the adrenal glands do not produce enough stress hormone called cortisol.
Common symptoms include fatigue, weight loss, and abdominal pain. Nevertheless, the characteristic symptom is hyperpigmentation of the sun-exposed areas of the skin.
When cortisol levels are low, they stimulate the anterior pituitary gland of the brain to release high levels of another hormone called adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH).
NIH pointed out that ACTH acts on skin cells known as melanocytes to produce high levels of melanin, causing “bronze” discoloration of the skin.
“In a strange twist of fate, one of Addison’s symptoms and the symptoms of the steroids used to treat it are hyperpigmentation, which can be the cause of JFK’s permanent” sunburn “. There is sex. It was pointed out. ” History was explained on its website.
FDR polio
According to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), the longest-serving president in the United States from 1933 to 1945, was a polio in 1921 at the age of 39. I was diagnosed with a paralytic virus called.
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“In the summer of 1921, the FDR enjoyed a day of sailing on a yacht when it suddenly fell overboard into the icy waters of the Bay of Fundy, which ironically felt paralyzed. “The FDR library explained on its website.
But the next day, he complained of back pain and returned to the water to relieve the pain.
However, according to the FDR library, after swimming, he gradually began to weaken his legs and became unable to bear his weight within a few days.
However, several doctors were needed to correctly diagnose the condition.
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Dr. William Keane “argued” that the cause of the symptoms of FDR was a blood clot in his lower spinal cord. Still a few days later, he said spinal cord injury was the cause of the symptoms of FDR.
Still, when the FDR wasn’t improving, he sought a second opinion. On August 25, 1921, Dr. Robert Lovett diagnosed FDR as infant paralysis. It is known as polio, an infectious disease that mainly affects children under the age of 5, according to the FDR Library website.
According to the FDR Library, he believed that political stress weakened the immune system and made him a “victim of polio” in adulthood.
“If someone suffers from polio as a child or a young adult, but maintains or recovers some or all of their weakened arm or leg movements, there is a risk of weakening in late adulthood, even after subsequent exercise.” CDC says.
“Lavet explained that in order to fight polio, you must be mentally and physically healthy and your immune system must be healthy,” the FDR Library added.
The FDR reassessed how he got sick, remembering that he was often ill as a child.
He believed that political stress weakened his immune system, which made him a “victim of infant paralysis” in adulthood, the FDR library explained.
” [polio] According to the CDC, the virus can spread from person to person and infect the human spinal cord, causing paralysis.
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Most people do not develop symptoms. However, about 25% of people have flu-like symptoms that last 2 to 5 days and then resolve. Less than 1% of people infected with the virus develop more serious symptoms of the brain and spinal cord.
The FDR sought to protect his condition throughout the presidency so that it would not appear “weak” to the American people. According to history, he should not take pictures of him when he is walking or leaning out of the car so that people do not know that he is tied to a wheelchair. Requested to.
Wilson’s paralysis
Doctors noticed that Woodrow Wilson, who became the country’s 28th president in 1913, began to experience sagging on one side of his mouth in 1919.
It’s a classic sign of a stroke.
Wilson noticed that he was partially paralyzed when he woke up one day later in the second term of the year. Still, his wife Edith gathered behind her husband to protect his administration from the public failure of his health horror.
According to history, “she was essentially president, and the country was exposed to darkness about Wilson’s true state until Wilson’s term ended in 1921.”
Vice President Thomas Marshall said in 1919 that in accordance with Article 2 of the Constitution, he would “become president only if he died, resigned, or failed to fulfill his powers and obligations.” I didn’t take office. He is in the same office. “
The American Stroke Association encourages people to think “fast” when they recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Then, in 1967, the 25th Amendment was ratified, making the president’s inheritance rules for disability clearer.
The American Stroke Association encourages people to think “fast” when they recognize the symptoms of a stroke. The acronyms represent drooping face, weakness on one arm of the body, difficulty speaking, and time to call 911.
After leaving the White House, one president chose to write to Americans about his medical illness.
Reagan’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Ronald Reagan, the oldest president of the United States to be reelected, wrote a handwritten letter to the American people about five years after he resigned when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
“I was recently told that I was one of the millions of Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease,” he said in a letter to “My Fellow Americans” on November 5, 1994. wrote.
“By opening our hearts [Nancy and I] I hope this may promote greater awareness of this condition, “Reagan added.
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“Perhaps it will promote a clearer understanding of the individuals and families affected by it,” the former president wrote in his much longer letter.