Joe Biden Is “Healthy, Active, Robust 81-Year-Old Male,” White House Doctor Says After President’s Annual Physical

The White House released a summary of Joe Biden‘s health this afternoon following the president’s annual physical.

The results showed that Biden has obstructive sleep apnea, a-fib with normal ventricular response, hyperlipidemia, gastroespohageal reflux, seasonal allergies, spinal arthritis and sensory peripheral neuropathy of the feet, according to the White House physician, Kevin O’Connor. He is taking three common prescription medications and three common over-the-counter medications, O’Connor wrote.

“President Biden is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully executive the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” O’Connor wrote.

Read President Joe Biden’s health summary.

As the oldest person to serve as president, Biden has faced concerns about his age as he pursues another term. When that was raised in an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers earlier this week, Biden told Meyers, “take a look at the other guy,” pointing to Donald Trump’s recent lapse in a speech in which he identified his wife as “Mercedes.”

But Robert Hur, the special counsel who had investigated Biden’s handling and retention of classified material after he left the vice presidency, wrote in his report that the president was “an elderly man with a poor memory.”

The White House pushed back on Hur’s report, and Biden himself blasted the special counsel for suggesting that he did not remember when his son, Beau, died.

At the White House press briefing today, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Biden’s decision not get get a cognitive test during his physical. “The doctor doesn’t believe he needs one, including the neurologist doesn’t believe he needs one,” Jean-Pierre said.