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c/bloodwork·submitted 23 days ago by u/baseline_drifter

[Explainer] which labs are worth repeating quarterly and which are theatre

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which labs are worth repeating quarterly and which are theatre. That is the post. The justification is underneath. Panicked about a single result, posted here, got told to repeat it, repeated it, and it was fine. Tracked triglycerides against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I…

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u/lipid_panel_larryMOD13 points·22 days ago

Left up. It is a question about how to compare panels, not a request for interpretation.

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u/ismael_eriksen11 points·22 days ago

Do you have a baseline from before you started?

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u/elin_trevino5 points·21 days ago

the trend line matters more than any single value

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u/ismael_eriksen2 points·21 days ago

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.

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u/skip_week_sceptic11 points·22 days ago

bring the numbers to someone qualified to read them

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u/baseline_drifterOPanalytical6 points·22 days ago

same lab, same conditions, or you are comparing noise

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u/isabela_guerrero5 points·22 days ago

do not change three things and then read the panel

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u/vito_chowdhury2 points·22 days ago

hydration status moves a surprising number of markers

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u/jarno_karlsen4 points·22 days ago

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

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