Jaiwant Rangi, MD, FACEEndocrinologist | Founder, Lower The Dose® | Speaker

Cholesterol: The Misleading Metric in the Metabolic Heart Disease Crisis

9 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief commentary, Dr. Jaiwant Rangi emphasizes that cholesterol is only one component of heart disease risk. He argues that heart disease should be viewed primarily as a metabolic disorder, and points out that many individuals experience heart attacks despite having cholesterol levels that are considered normal by conventional standards. The underlying message is that undiagnosed metabolic dysfunction can be a hidden driver of cardiovascular events, making cholesterol alone an insufficient metric for assessing heart health.

Cholesterol is never the full story. That's just part of the equation. Cholesterol is one risk factor, but the heart disease is a metabolic disease first. And many people who suffer the heart attack never had high cholesterol to begin with by the traditional standards. So you could have a completely normal cholesterol and still get a heart attack because you might have underlying metabolic disease that was never diagnosed.