[Baseline] get these before you start, you cannot go back for them later
get these before you start, you cannot go back for them later. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding. My ApoB moved and I spent a fortnight convinced I knew why. The repeat six…
The confounding problem, stated plainly, because this board keeps stepping on it.
Substantial weight loss moves lipids, liver enzymes, insulin sensitivity markers and several others in its own right. If you are losing weight while taking something, any change in those markers has at least two candidate explanations and you cannot separate them from your own panel.
What you can do is standardise, take a baseline, keep the series long, and be honest in your posts about what is and is not attributable. The threads that say "this compound did X to my ApoB" almost never have the design to support the claim, mine included.
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
What did the repeat show?
Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.
Panicked about a single result, posted here, got told to repeat it, repeated it, and it was fine.
Substantial weight loss independently moves lipids, liver enzymes and several other markers. Attributing a change to a compound while losing weight is confounded by design.
That comparison crosses two labs with different assays. The difference you are describing may be the method.