[Results] ALT 34 → 19 in seven months, nothing else changed
ALT 34 → 19 in seven months, nothing else changed. Numbers below. Ask me the boring questions, they are the useful ones. Brought the whole set to my clinician rather than one flagged value. Completely different conversation. How to make a panel worth comparing, which is most of the value people leave on the table.…
Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration. Comparing across labs adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report.
Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this.
Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different.
Fasting or not, and what time of day?
bring the numbers to someone qualified to read them
Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.