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

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

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The title is the argument: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about baseline labs are guesswork. Here is the rest of 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 wrong. The…

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u/chidi_abubakar14 points·2 months ago

Same view — ApoB if you add one thing. It answers a question the standard panel only gestures at.

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u/burned_once_twice9 points·2 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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u/customs_seizure_sid1 point·2 months ago

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

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u/karl_fischer_kev6 points·2 months ago

That is a non-fasting value and the interval you are comparing it against is a fasting one.

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u/anders_vermeulen20 points·2 months 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/ravi_sandvik10 points·2 months ago

weight loss itself moves several of these independently

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u/india_generic_g24 points·2 months ago

ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one

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