Why is Kamala Harris’s health report made public even though presidential nominees are not required to do so?

Washington: US Vice President Kamala Harris’s physician Joshua Simmons Said on Saturday, October 12 that the Vice President is in top quality health and likewise possesses physical and mental resilience.

“Vice President Harris is still in top quality health. She possesses the physical and mental resilience to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, including those as Chief Executive, Heat of State and Commander in Chief,” Joshua Simmons, the vice-president’s physician, who is a US army doctor, wrote contained in the signed statement.

Kamala Harris’ health report has been released though the president nominees are now now not required to free up their health information. The Harris campaign has done with the intention to draw a contrast between the Vice President who is fifty nine and former President Donald Trump, who is the oldest nominee for President at seventy eight. Trump has during the past said he's going to free up his health report but has now now not done so yet.

Per the White House report, the findings are from a test conducted in April, when Harris became months removed from ascending to the pinnacle of the Democratic ticket for president. She became President Joe Biden’s running mate.

Harris’s blood pressure measures a standard 128/Seventy four, heart rate of seventy eight beats per minute. Despite the undeniable proven fact that there might be a family history of ovarian cancer on the maternal side, her Indian-born mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris died of colon cancer, the physician’s report said she has no personal history of high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, neurological disorders, or cancer of osteoporosis.

About her hypersensitive reactions, the report said her symptoms primarily include allergic rhinitis and allergic conjunctivitis and have during the past been well-managed with over-the-counter and prescription medications.

“The Vice President has been on Allergen Immunotherapy for the last three years and consequently fact, her hypersensitivity symptoms and urticaria have improved dramatically,” the health report claimed adding that the Vice President suffers from “mild myopia”.

“She wears corrective contact lenses with 20/20 resultant vision. She is able to read very effortlessly, without contacts or glasses,” it said.

The report notes that the Vice President maintains a healthy, active standard of living despite her busy time table.

“She does lively on on a on a day by day basis basis basis aerobic exercises and core strength training and she eats a in point of fact nutritious diet, does now now not smoke and drinks best once almost without delay and moderately,” the report claimed.

(With IANS inputs)