Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Thursday he’ll make his medical records public at the “appropriate time.”

“People do have a right to know about the health of a senator and someone running for president,” Sanders told CNN’s Sanjay Gupta in a live interview at his Burlington, Vt. home. “At the appropriate time we'll make all the medical records public for you or anyone else who wants to see them.”



Sanders, who’s recovering from a recent heart attack, attempted to curtail any speculation that his campaign has not been transparent about his health, claiming aides wanted to wait until they had all of the facts.



“The first concern people had was to understand what was going on before we're going to reveal information dribble by dribble,” the Vermont senator said.


For the first time, Sanders provided intimate details on his heart attack that took the 78-year-old senator off the campaign trail for nearly a week.