lipids got worse on paper while everything else got better. triglycerides explain it.
lipids got worse on paper while everything else got better. triglycerides explain it. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.
My A1c moved and I spent a fortnight convinced I knew why. The repeat six weeks later was back in range and I had changed nothing.
Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different.
Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration. Comparing across labs adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report.
Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration.
Adding the obvious one — take it to whoever ordered the panel. This board cannot read it for you.
Repeat testing before acting is standard practice for a reason: regression to the mean does a lot of work on single outlying values.
a single ApoB outside range is a reason to repeat, not to panic
Did anything else change in that window — training, intake, hydration?
Repeat testing before acting is standard practice for a reason: regression to the mean does a lot of work on single outlying values.
Agreed — and standardising the draw conditions is the cheapest improvement available.
Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.
baseline before you start is worth more than any later panel
Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.
Tracked ApoB against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing.
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 is a non-fasting value and the interval you are comparing it against is a fasting one.
How many weeks between the two measurements?
Cosigning on baseline. The panel I regret most is the one I did not take before starting.
ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one
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