Jimmy Carter hospitalized over brain pressure

Ex United state president Jimmy Carter was admitted Monday night to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta ahead of a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, the Carter Center announced in a statement posted to Twitter.

The pressure was caused by bleeding from his recent falls, the center said. Carter, 95, will undergo the procedure Tuesday morning.

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Carter was previously survived brain and liver cancer.

“President Carter is resting comfortably, and his wife, Rosalynn, is with him,” the center said in its statement.