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

The Sweet Danger: Why the Heart Bears the True Burden of Diabetes

1 Aug 2026 · 0 min

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Dr. Jaiwant Rangi explains that heart attacks and strokes, not high blood sugar itself, kill most people with diabetes. Elevated glucose is a warning sign that your heart is in danger. Protecting the heart should be the main goal of diabetes care.

Because the heart is what most often takes people with diabetes— heart attack, stroke, heart failure. People don't die of diabetes, people die of heart attack, people die of heart problems. So because they're so interconnected, heart is the primary reason why we need to protect it. High blood sugar is going to cause the heart attack. It's not high blood sugar itself that is hurting you. So the sugar is an alarm and heart is the emergency.

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