Whether Trump or Biden are elected this year, they will be the oldest president in American history, so their health is of great concern.

Joe Biden, 77, once raised concerns about health when he missed an event.

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US President Trump at the West Point Academy graduation ceremony on June 13 Photo: Reuters

It is not surprising that voters want more information about the health of candidates, especially when Covid-19 is raging, posing a great threat to the elderly and people with underlying medical conditions.

In American history, many presidents had health problems, such as Abraham Lincoln's depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered from polio.

A number of US presidents hid their illnesses, especially Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States, who were absent from the public in the summer of 1893. When the United States fell into its worst economic crisis in

A few months earlier, Cleveland spotted a small bump on the left side of his mouth - his cigar.

But Cleveland, who had just begun his second term, was concerned that if he was diagnosed with cancer, this news would disrupt the financial market, causing it to decline further.

Under the guise of a fishing trip, the President boarded your yacht, returning to his summer resort on Cape Cod.

In total, nearly half of US presidents were seriously ill or injured during their term of office;

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The appeal for presidential candidates to publish health records comes from a desire to find out if they are at risk of dying in office or able to shoulder the world's most stressful job.

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JoeBiden in Delaware on June 5 Photo: Reuters

A landmark study in 2000 found that 80% of doctors misdiagnosed the time when incurable patients could live longer after being "returned" by the hospital.

Artificial intelligence can't help much either.

It is unlikely that the measurements could say more than observing candidates during the campaign process.

Health records can become a political weapon rather than a candidate's fitness suitability assessment tool.

At the September 11, 2016 memorial event, Hillary Clinton felt dizzy and had to leave.

The next day, news channels reported about Clinton's pneumonia 13 times more than Trump's allegations.

Dhruv Khullar, a lecturer at Weill Cornell Medical University, proposed the idea of creating an independent physician council to examine the candidate's physical condition.

In fact, whether a president can lead the country effectively depends more on the level of mental sharpness - a factor that can decline over time.

According to Khullar, it is possible to use a nonpartisan physician council to make an assessment of the presidential candidate's mental acuity level.

"Anyway, there is no unifying standard for the president's health. The best test to see if a candidate is fit to enter the White House is their performance in the campaign (if the US has one," he said.

Except for a few rumors, Grover Cleveland's "hide-and-seek" was kept a secret for nearly a quarter of a century, until the last living surgeon of the mission revealed the truth.