{"id":8806,"date":"2026-01-01T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/01\/01\/trump-tells-wsj-he-is-taking-more-aspirin-than-doctors-recommend-yahoo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:43:16","slug":"trump-tells-wsj-he-is-taking-more-aspirin-than-doctors-recommend-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/01\/01\/trump-tells-wsj-he-is-taking-more-aspirin-than-doctors-recommend-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells WSJ he is taking more aspirin than doctors recommend &#8211; Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p>By Jasper Ward<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he is \u200btaking a larger daily dose of aspirin than his doctors recommend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They \u200csay aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don\u2019t want thick blood pouring \u200cthrough my heart,&#8221; Trump told the paper in an interview published on Thursday. &#8220;I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, 79, is the second-oldest person to ever hold the presidency, following his Democratic predecessor President \u2060Joe Biden, who dropped \u200chis 2024 reelection bid amid questions about his fitness for the job and was aged 82 when he left office \u200da year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s health has been in the spotlight in recent months due to bruises that have been spotted on his hands and an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) exam that he \u200bwas reported to have undergone in October, as well as instances where \u200cthe Republican president closed his eyes during public events.<\/p>\n<p>Daily use of aspirin can lower the chances of heart attack or stroke for people over the age of 60, according to the Mayo Clinic, which says a low dose of aspirin is most commonly 81 milligrams.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s doctor, Sean Barbabella, told the \u2060Journal that Trump takes 325 milligrams of aspirin \u200bdaily for cardiac prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The bruising is the \u200bresult of him shaking so many hands, according to the White House, which said last month the MRI was preventative.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about \u200dthe MRI, Trump \u2060and Barbabella told the Journal that the president actually got a CT scan.<\/p>\n<p>Barbabella said Trump&#8217;s doctors had initially said they would perform either \u2060an MRI or a CT scan but decided to do the latter &#8220;to definitively rule out any \u200ccardiovascular issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It revealed no abnormalities, according to Barbabella.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Jasper \u200cWardEditing by Scott Malone and Frances Kerry)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he is \u200btaking a larger daily dose of aspirin than his doctors recommend. &#8220;They \u200csay aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don\u2019t want thick blood pouring \u200cthrough my heart,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}