Bernie Sanders' Health & Campaign: 6 Facts You Need To Know
Bernie Sanders, recovering from a heart procedure after chest pain, cancels campaign events.
Bernie Sanders: 6 facts you need to know about his health and campaign
1 # A medical evaluation found a blockage in one artery and two stents were inserted.
During a campaign appearance in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening, Vermont's 78-year-old senator began to experience chest pain; At one point Sanders rested against a desk and asked for a chair to sit down, saying: "It was a long day."
After medical evaluation and testing, he was found to have a block in one artery and two stents were successfully inserted, "said senior campaign advisor Jeff Weaver in a statement. “Sen. Sanders is conversing and in good spirits. He will be resting up over the next few days,” the statement said.
2 # Intensify the focus on age in the democratic race
Sander's hospitalization is likely to intensify the focus on age in the Democratic race, even though much of the public debate is focused on policies such as health care and immigration.
The three most important Democratic candidates, as well as the president they want to challenge, are all in their seventies. One of those Democrats, Joseph R. Biden Jr., 76, has taken his own age-related control because of his sometimes creeping treatises and unequal answers in debates.
3 # A heart attack or only experiencing chest pain:
Campaign staff members did not provide any further information about Mr. Sanders' condition and they did not say whether he had had a heart attack or if he only had chest pain.
4 # Mr Sanders posted a tweet that thanked his benefactors
At the end of Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Sanders posted a tweet in which he thanked his benefactors and used the incident as an opportunity to put his signature in his policy proposal, "Medicare for all."
5 # Placing stents in arteries is common in the United States
Inserting stents into arteries is common in the United States - there are at least 600,000 such procedures per year, and perhaps up to a million. It is usually straightforward and patients return home within a day or two.
"The prognosis is very good," said Dr. Steven Nissen, the chief academic officer of the Heart and Vascular Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. "Most patients are home the next day and return to work quickly." He said he didn't see it as an obstacle to returning to the campaign track.
6 # when Mr. Sanders returns to the campaign track
However, it is unclear when Mr Bernie Sanders will return to the campaign track or whether he will be able to participate in the next democratic debate on 15 October in Columbus, Ohio.
