dr Katarzyna Lewandowska
Cardiologist
Specialist physician in cardiology, cardiovascular-prevention consultant
Katarzyna works as a cardiologist at a Warsaw teaching hospital and has spent years focused on cardiovascular prevention — trying, as she puts it, to convince people to change their habits before they end up on her ward, not after. She joined VitMode after a series of conversations with Anna at a lifestyle-medicine conference, where the two discovered they shared the same frustration: an internet full of contradictory claims about cholesterol, aspirin and heart supplements, with no clear signal of what's actually backed by research. She reviews content on cardiovascular health, lipid panels and pharmacological prevention, consistently distinguishing what helps a statistical population from what makes sense for a specific person. Off duty, she road-cycles — not for performance, but because, in her words, it's hard to write credibly about prevention without practicing it yourself.
Medically reviewed
4.6Metabolic Syndrome
A cluster of five risk factors — from abdominal obesity to elevated triglycerides — that multiplies the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but is largely modifiable through lifestyle change.
4.6Lipid Panel
The lipid panel is one of the most important — and still one of the most frequently misread — preventive blood tests: 'total cholesterol' alone tells you less than the ratios between its fractions.
4.4Statins
The best-researched class of LDL-cholesterol-lowering drugs, with one of the largest evidence bases in all of cardiology — yet still surrounded by numerous, largely unfounded fears.
4.7Hypertension
The 'silent killer' — it runs symptom-free for years, yet it's one of the strongest, and largely modifiable, risk factors for stroke and heart attack in the world.
4.6Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC)
A non-invasive CT scan that directly measures the amount of calcification in the coronary arteries — one of the strongest available predictors of a future heart attack in people without symptoms.
Category: Metabolic Health, Blood Tests, Medications, Diseases & Disorders, Diagnostics