[Question] ApoB — what am I missing here
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: ApoB — what am I missing here. Panicked about a single result, posted here, got told to repeat it, repeated it, and it was fine. The confounding problem, stated plainly, because this board keeps stepping on it. Substantial weight loss moves lipids, liver enzymes, insulin…
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
Correcting my own comment: the two draws were 17 weeks apart, not the figure I gave earlier.
Draw at the same point in the week now, fasting, same lab. The noise dropped enormously once I standardised.
Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.
How many weeks between the two measurements?
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
Adding the obvious one — take it to whoever ordered the panel. This board cannot read it for you.
Adding the obvious one — take it to whoever ordered the panel.
This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.
Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different.