RSRanjan Shetty

1. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Dr Ranjan Shetty

   At 35, Bengaluru woman had mild cholesterol: What doubled her heart attack risk then? (opens the original)

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   At 35, Priya (name changed), an IT professional from Bengaluru, thought she was reasonably healthy. Yes, she had put on a few kilos after years of working from home. Exercise had slipped down her list of priorities, and late-night food deliveries had become routine. But she wasn’t diabetic, her blood pressure was normal, and her LDL cholesterol — the number everyone talks about — was mildly elevated at 120 mg/dL, optimal being 100 mg/dL. Then came her annual health check. Her triglycerides had s

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2. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Dr Ranjan Shetty

   30-year-old had headache, slurred speech, lost balance: But the trigger was not stroke (opens the original)

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   A 30-year-old woman walked out of her office and got to our emergency. She complained of a terrible headache. Then she struggled to find words. Her speech became impaired and she was convinced she was having a stroke. Except she wasn’t. Instead, her blood pressure had risen to a dangerously high level, producing symptoms that closely resembled those of a stroke, something we call a hypertensive emergency. Most of us know high blood pressure as “the silent killer” because it often causes no sympt

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