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CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta declared President Trump likely has heart disease, disputing findings made public by the official White House physician.
Speaking Wednesday on CNN, Gupta said the test results made public the previous day by Dr. Ronny Jackson, the president's physician and a Navy rear admiral, demonstrated a heart malady.
"A few years ago, dating back to 2009 President Trump started having these tests that are actually looking for the presence of calcium in the blood vessels that lead to the heart … and steadily, up until just this past week, when he had them performed again, those numbers have gone up," Gupta said. "Well, when they get to a certain range, and his number is in the 130s, that means he has heart disease."
He added there was "no question" that "by all standards, by all metrics, any way a doctor or cardiologist would look at it, the president does have heart disease."
He said, however, that it could be controlled by medication and diet.