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c/bloodwork·submitted 1 months ago by u/hugo_pires

[Meta] proposal — a flair for ferritin posts

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proposal — a flair for ferritin posts. Disagreement welcome, but bring a concrete alternative wording. Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration. Comparing across labs adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report. Substantial weight loss independently moves lipids,…

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u/kenji_kimani17 points·1 months ago

Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.

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u/hugo_piresOP20 points·1 months ago

Tracked A1c against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing.

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u/lina_almeida6 points·1 months ago·edited

Tracked A1c against the weight trend for a year.

Adding the obvious one — take it to whoever ordered the panel. This board cannot read it for you.

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u/vito_chowdhury6 points·1 months ago

one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend

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u/baseline_drifteranalytical2 points·1 months ago

the trend line matters more than any single value

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u/laila_yilmaz1 point·1 months ago

Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.

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