LATEST: Former American President BILL CLINTON has left hospital four days after receiving a quadruple bypass which managed to avert a major heart attack.

Clinton, 58, has been discharged from New York's Presbyterian Hospital and is recuperating at his home in Chappaqua, New York, with his wife HILLARY and their daughter CHELSEA.

The politician's office says, 'The president is in good spirits and has taken short walks in the hospital hallway and in his home today.'

The former first family add, 'Your thoughts and prayers meant so much to us, and helped keep our spirits strong.

'We feel blessed to have such support, and it will continue to sustain us throughout the months of recuperation that remain ahead.' (AR/WNWCAG/ES)