[Discussion] ApoB is doing more work than we give it credit for
ApoB is doing more work than we give it credit for. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Tracked fasting insulin against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing. How to make a panel worth comparing, which is most of the…
Repeat testing before acting is standard practice for a reason: regression to the mean does a lot of work on single outlying values.
Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.
Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.
Disagreeing with this bit: that change is confounded by the weight loss itself and cannot be attributed.
Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.
Agreed — and standardising the draw conditions is the cheapest improvement available.
Have you taken this to whoever ordered it?
weight loss itself moves several of these independently
weight loss itself moves several of these independently
This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.