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c/bloodwork·submitted 1 year ago by u/yara_antonsen

help me understand ALT, I have read the wiki twice

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Genuine question, and the title is the question: help me understand ALT, I have read the wiki twice. Panicked about a single result, posted here, got told to repeat it, repeated it, and it was fine. Tracked triglycerides against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was…

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u/santiago_rasmussen128 points·1 year ago

Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can usefully do is help you ask better questions of somebody who can.

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u/amara_dziedzic43 points·1 year ago

Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this.

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u/yara_antonsenOP-38 points·1 year ago

Have you taken this to whoever ordered it?

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u/yara_antonsenOP150 points·1 year ago·edited

Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so.

santiago_rasmussen is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.

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u/yara_antonsenOP55 points·1 year ago·edited

What did the repeat show?

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u/emeka_chowdhury0 points·1 year ago

Fasting or not, and what time of day?

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u/liver_enzyme_liz0 points·1 year ago

Fasting or not, and what time of day?

Disagreeing with this bit: that change is confounded by the weight loss itself and cannot be attributed.

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