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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/rekha_mwangi22 points·2 months ago

Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can usefully do is help you ask better questions of somebody who can.

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u/diego_almeida16 points·2 months ago

Brought the whole set to my clinician rather than one flagged value. Completely different conversation.

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u/nabila_bakken7 points·2 months ago

lab reference ranges are not treatment targets

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u/hedda_adeyemi14 points·2 months ago

Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration. Comparing across labs adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report.

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u/yara_antonsen10 points·2 months ago

Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.

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u/cold_chromatogram3110 points·2 months ago

Right, and weight loss itself moves several markers, so attribution is harder than these threads assume.

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u/liver_enzyme_liz4 points·2 months ago

same lab, same conditions, or you are comparing noise

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