Dr. Reiner
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His severe edema in his ankles, which was described as chronic venous insufficiency, when just three months before, one year ago, his examination disclosed that he had no edema, which would then make it acute venous insufficiency, which is an entirely different thing.
And finally, the president has severe daytime somnolence.
He falls asleep very often.
He's fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him, in the Cabinet Room, and was concerned yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day observances.
And chronic insomnia is a severe illness.
It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive effects in older people.
It's equivalent to about increasing your age by about three and a half years.
It increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure.
And it can produce a decline in your sort of mental functions, like it could increase depression, anxiety.
So it's a real problem.
And the president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day.
And I'd like to hear what the White House has done to evaluate why the president has this increased daytime somnolence and what they're doing to improve that.