[Discussion] can we stop arguing about ApoB until somebody posts a number
Question in the title, detail here: can we stop arguing about ApoB until somebody posts a number. 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. Different laboratories use different…
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.
Repeat testing before acting is standard practice for a reason: regression to the mean does a lot of work on single outlying values.
lab reference ranges are not treatment targets
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.
Panicked about a single result, posted here, got told to repeat it, repeated it, and it was fine.
Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.
This. Reference ranges are population intervals, not targets, and conflating them causes a lot of unnecessary alarm here.
the trend line matters more than any single value
a single ApoB outside range is a reason to repeat, not to panic
Agreed on assay changes. A lab switching platforms between your draws is invisible unless you ask.