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gab13by13

(30,053 posts)
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 11:37 PM Friday

About Krasnov's 2nd yearly doctor's visit

My yearly visit is coming up this December, I think I'm getting short changed. The White House doctor reported that Krasnov had "advanced imaging." That could be a CT scan or MRI, right? I never get those done at my yearly visit, I usually shoot the breeze with my doctor about our kids and grandkids, then she listens to my heart and has a nurse flush my wax clogged ears out and tells me about the routine blood work she had done.

Anyone else get advanced imaging at his/her yearly doctor visit?

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About Krasnov's 2nd yearly doctor's visit (Original Post) gab13by13 Friday OP
Based on Leavitt's assertions about his heart age, Ms. Toad Saturday #1
Does "advanced imaging" include a catheterization and angiography Jersey Devil Saturday #2
Probably not. Ms. Toad Saturday #3
What if these tests were done as pre-op for surgery he's going to have when he travels to the ME? in2herbs Saturday #4

Ms. Toad

(37,865 posts)
1. Based on Leavitt's assertions about his heart age,
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 12:10 AM
Saturday

It was likely a Cardiac calcification score. For average citizens, it isn't done as part of an annual exam - but most of us don't have our annual exams done in a hospital setting where there is immediate access to imaging technology.

Problem is - those things aren't accurate once you start taking statins, because on imaging hardening of the arteries due to statins is not distinguishable from hardening of the arteries due to atherosclerosis. And he's been on statins for years. So I tend to doubt the assertion that his heart is biologically 14 years younger than he is.

Jersey Devil

(10,509 posts)
2. Does "advanced imaging" include a catheterization and angiography
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 12:16 AM
Saturday

and insertion of stents, if necessary? Could be for his heart or his canckles

Ms. Toad

(37,865 posts)
3. Probably not.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 12:35 AM
Saturday

Those usually fall under interventional radiology (treatment) not evaluation/diagnosis.

Leavitt's announcement of biological heart age is consistent with a cardiac calcification score (specialized CT). I had one done a couple of years ago to get my doctor off my back about statins. I can't find the results - but I know they included the biological age of my heart and that it was considerably younger than my chronological age.

in2herbs

(3,993 posts)
4. What if these tests were done as pre-op for surgery he's going to have when he travels to the ME?
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 02:31 AM
Saturday

By having the surgery in the ME he can hide his medical issues from Americans and recuperate out of the limelight. Wanna bet the use of AI will be used extensively to prove he's working while out of the WH?

Why is he going to the ME instead of Israel. He just struck a peace deal over there. You'd think f45 would take the opportunity to be in the limelight.

What if f45 doesn't transfer power to JD and croaks?

What if going to the ME is his escape plan because he knows that the Epstein files aren't going away?

Did his other medical report for his first annual physical list him having a COVID and flu vaccine? Did he have these vaccines before he went to the ME a few months ago?

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