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>> greg: the only neil that should be at the super bowl. yesterday, i dont know if you remember. gregs surveillance camera footage of his accident yesterday. we have surveillance video of me getting hit in the head by a a large solid door. its great. we have cameras everywhere. lets take a look at what happened. you will see me coming towards the door. thats me. oh, and then i get hit. it was pretty brutal. i had to fill out a workmens comp. form for this. >> kimberly: you have to. >> greg: gett...

Done. it was a three and a half hour exam done at walter reed. given his age, focusing on the heart makes perfect sense and i think that was the majority of the exam. there is a specific test that is a cat scan that looks at the blood vessels that lead to the heart known as the coronaries trying to figure out if there is some disease within those blood vessels, some heart disease. i asked dr. jackson specifically about that. he did not talk about this cat scan being done until the further questi...

>> so tell us about the test results, the ones that focus specifically on heart disease. >> well, there were several types of tests to try to parse out evidence of problems with the heart, cholesterol tests. his cholesterol has gone up, despite medication. and his weight. the one that came out in questioning is coronary calcium test which is looking for evidence of plaque and narrowing of the blood vessels that lead to the heart. listen to how it was described. >> he does not have heart disease....

Thats a little bit of a picture of the impact of that. so you do have a situation now you have a president who has high cholesterol despite cholesterol lowering medication, who has evidence of heart disease based on a previous ct scan, a coronary calcium ct scan of his heart, and he has this borderline obesity in terms of his weight. so you sort of balance that with the fact that the doctor says hes still in excellent health, that the function of his heart is fine. so he still says hes in excell...

Does have whats known as coronary athrosclorosis. thats basically plaque in the blood vessels that lead to the heart. thats heart disease. he gave a number which is 133. every chart you look at, all the studies and journal articles written about this shows that anything over 100 is heart disease and puts someone at moderate risk of having some sort of heart problem down the line. this is a scan basically, a ct scan, of the chest. its basically looking for plaque in the blood vessels that go to t...

Conversation. we know as you mention the president has high cholesterol, and heart disease and borderline obese. but the function of his heart doing an echo cardiogram and stress test, he said all those tests are fine. so despite the other things, he still maintains the president is in excellent health. so 3.5 hour exam last friday. that was the big conclusion. he doesnt really have any concerns about his health at this time. >> and 3 and a half hours, thats a long annual, im glad you put the ti...

Routine, working on his diet. those things will make him much healthier although his health is good right now. dr. gupta? >> some pretty intensive tests -- >> it was a trans thoracic. >> was there something you were worried about specifically in the ct scan? >> no. not at all. we did the ct scan because we were debating, i any background information on him. i didnt have old chest x-rays to look at or anything so i was going to initially get a chest x-ray and be done with it but it is so easy now...

Cardiac assessment in a controlled environment like the hospital before you prescribe an exercise program to a patient. so that was my thinking there. >> he does have heart disease? >> he does not. >> did he have a ct scan before that shows calcium in his blood vessels? >> he did. he has nonclinical coronary athero sclerosis. he had a coronary score done in 2009 and in 2013 that was 98. we did get a calcium score. it was clinically good information. it wasnt -- it was 133. so had a long conversa...

Makes sense to get a good cardiac assessment in a controlled environment like the hospital before you prescribe an exercise program to a patient. so that was my thinking there. >> he doesnt have heart disease, is that what you said? >> he doesnt have heart disease. >> did he have a ct scan before that showed calcium in his coronary blood vessels ? >> he does, he did. technically, he has nonclinical co coronary -- he had a coronary calcium score done in 2009. it was 34. he had a coronary calcium ...

Those things will make him much re healthier than he is now although his health is excellent right now. dr. gupta, you want to answer one or -- >> there were extensive tests including a scan of his chest -- >> trans-thoracic. >> did he need to be sedated at all, there was anything you were concerned about in the ct scan? >> not at all. we got the ct scan because we were debating. i didnt have background information on him at all from a pulmonary stand poichbt, didnt have old chest sprays to look...