By releasing 1 simple indicator of his heart health, Sen. Sanders could address some lingering questions, Richard Kovacs, the president of the American College of Cardiology, tells NBCNews.
Kovacs, who reviewed the letters for NBC News, said they omit a “standard” measure of Sanders’ heart health.
Sanders hasn’t revealed what the number was at the time of his heart attack nor what it is today. Campaign spokesman Mike Casca, responding to questions from NBC News, declined to provide the ejection fraction number to NBC. The doctors’ letters “are pretty comprehensive,” Casca told NBC News. “A subsequent stress test in January and the other information about his clinical response were all very positive and encouraging,” Wilson said. “I don’t really know” why Sanders wouldn’t release it, he added, offering that it could be over concern it could be “misconstrued” in the broader clinical picture. “It is an important baseline but it does have to be taken into the whole clinical context,” including the fact that Sanders hasn’t had additional incidents, which is all positive, he said.
One letter released by the campaign, from University of Vermont cardiologist Martin LeWinter, called Sanders’ heart function “stable and well preserved” but omits the number.
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