Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz, the youngest of the mayoral hopefuls on the Toledo Sept. 12 primary ballot, has excellent credit and cholesterol numbers in the “desirable” range, but he needs to lower his weight.

Health emerged as a factor for Toledo’s previous mayor, D. Michael Collins, but only after it was too late.

He was struck down by a cardiac arrest slightly more than a year into his term.

The Blade asked the three major candidates for mayor for credit reports, 2016 tax returns, and a medical evaluation. Only Mr. Kapszukiewicz, 44, complied.

Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson, 66, supplied a copy of her 2016 tax return without attachments, but no other documents on financial or medical information.

Councilman Tom Waniewski, 60, a former professional TV journalist, also failed to comply.

“I respectfully decline your request. For the life of me, I never understood what releasing this personal information does to advance the cause of good government,” Mr. Waniewski wrote in an email to The Blade.

He said information about his career is available on his website.

Kapszukiewicz

Mr. Kapszukiewicz’s health report came with a letter from his doctor, Dr. Sarma Katrapati. His letter to The Blade dated Monday said that, “in my medical opinion, Mr. Wade Kapszukiewicz is in sound physical and mental condition to perform duties as the mayor of Toledo if elected.”

In response to the details sought by The Blade, Mr. Kapszukiewicz reported cholesterol and triglyceride numbers that were “desirable.” His blood pressure at the time of his Aug. 18 visit was 132/​88 mm/​hg, with a resting heart rate of 72 beats per minute.

In a follow-up email from his campaign spokesman, The Blade was told that Mr. Kapszukiewicz stands 6 feet, 2 inches and weighs 240, which would give him a body mass index of 30.8 according to an online body mass index calculator run by Mercy Health.

“Yes, his doctor has told him to lose some weight. Yes, he is working on it,” spokesman Gretchen DeBacker said.

His doctor works for Mercy Health.

The health system’s website says body mass index uses height and weight values to determine risk for weight-related health problems. Below 18.5 is underweight; 18.5 to 25 is normal; 25 to 30 is overweight; 30 to 34.9 is obese; 35 or greater is morbidly obese.

Mr. Kapszukiewicz’s weight placed him just over the line from overweight into obesity. A recommended weight for a man his height is between about 155 and 197 pounds, according to multiple sources.

Mr. Kapszukiewicz has staked his campaign in part on fiscal integrity, often making the statement that every day he has balanced half a billion dollars to the penny.

The FICO score that he turned in is in line with such a claim. FICO is calculated from credit reports produced by Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, using a range typically from 300 to 850, though they can be higher.

His FICO is 833 — “exceptional,” according to FICO, based on TransUnion data as of Aug. 17, 2017.

Consumers with a score that high are considered good credit risks because only 1 percent of consumers in the 800 to 850 segment wind up in serious credit trouble.

The report indicates that Mr. Kapszukiewicz has no missed payments on his credit accounts. It shows his oldest account was established 26 years and five months ago.

According to the summary of his credit report, Mr. Kapszukiewicz has a balance of $336 on a Chase credit card, $115,709 on a mortgage with PNC Bank, $63,565 on a mortgage with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, and a car loan of $15,508 with Huntington National Bank.

On his tax return and the attachments, Mr. Kapszukiewicz and his wife, Sarah Weglian, reported adjusted gross income of $101,844. They also reported rent of $9,085 on a property on Crestwood Road.

The couple listed $16,744 in deductions, including $2,000 for two children, on the taxes they paid, mortgage interest, and $1,898 in gifts to charity.

Hicks-Hudson

Mayor Hicks-Hudson provided The Blade with the 2016 tax return for herself and her husband, Freeman Hudson. It shows taxable income of $150,502.

She did not release a credit report, FICO score, or any medical information.

The two-page 1040 form the mayor released showed $18,154 in itemized deductions but she did not release the attachment showing information on deductions or charitable donations. The couple lists paying $100 for an extension to file.

Sam Melendez, campaign manager for Mayor Hicks-Hudson, said the mayor’s doctor retired after her last physical and cannot send a letter about her health information.

“His office says because the last time he had seen her was before he retired, that he cannot do that,” Mr. Melendez said. “So she has found a new doctor and is going to get a new physical, and we will make the doctor available after that. I am not sending any medical records over.”

Mr. Melendez said the mayor’s FICO credit score is 767, which is consider “very good.” The mayor declined repeated requests by The Blade to verify the score by viewing documentation.

Two years ago, Mayor Hicks-Hudson partially complied with The Blade’s request for health and credit information. Rather than give The Blade an actual FICO report, Ms. Hicks-Hudson looked up her FICO score online and reported to The Blade that it was 658, which is considered fair.

The Blade didn’t seek health and credit information from perennial mayoral candidate Opal Covey.

During the 2013 election contest for mayor, The Blade sought detailed medical information from both candidates, incumbent Mike Bell and then-Councilman Collins.

Both pronounced themselves in excellent health, up to the stressful tasks of being mayor. But both basically said we had to take their word for it.

In a report published in The Blade on Oct. 27, 2013, Mr. Bell and Mr. Collins declined to allow access to personal health information such as cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and resting heart rates.

Mr. Bell, who was 58 at the time, said he worked out four mornings a week at a fitness center, using an elliptical machine and jump rope, as well as weights.

Mr. Collins, who was 69 then, said he had no chronic health issues and was getting semiannual physical exams.

The official cause of death for Mr. Collins was “ventricular fibrillation,” which was a consequence of high blood pressure he had for years, according to his death certificate filed with the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.

The document states the mayor, who died Feb. 6, 2015, after suffering a cardiac arrest Feb. 1 while driving, had “hypertensive heart disease” for years. That was listed as a contributing factor of his death.

It was not known if the mayor took any medicines regularly.

About two weeks before his death, the late mayor attended a conference in Washington despite feeling sick with a high fever and possibly the flu. Medical experts said the flu could have contributed to the mayor’s death.

Contact Tom Troy at tomtroy@theblade.com, 419-724-6058 or on Twitter @TomFTroy.

First Published August 26, 2017, 12:56 p.m.