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c/bloodwork·submitted 2 months ago by u/janek_ferrari

unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about lipids are guesswork

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unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about lipids are guesswork, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population. By construction one person in twenty falls outside one on any given test without anything being…

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u/britt_marchand9 points·2 months ago

Agreed on assay changes. A lab switching platforms between your draws is invisible unless you ask.

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u/gentle_correctionnice about it5 points·2 months ago

Not convinced by the attribution. Weight loss alone moves that marker and you have no way to separate the two.

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