small win: ALT stopped being a problem at week 87
small win: ALT stopped being a problem at week 87. This is a description of what happened to me and not a plan for anybody else. Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this. Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before…
Identifying header cropped from the report above. Post the values, not the name and reference number.
Have you taken this to whoever ordered it?
What did the repeat show?
lab reference ranges are not treatment targets
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
Disagreeing with this bit: that change is confounded by the weight loss itself and cannot be attributed.
Same view — ApoB if you add one thing. It answers a question the standard panel only gestures at.
That comparison crosses two labs with different assays. The difference you are describing may be the method.
hydration status moves a surprising number of markers
Push back: a value just outside a reference interval is a common finding in healthy people. It is a reason to repeat.
Disagree with reading anything into that. One value, one morning, and you changed two other things in the same window.
Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.
Do you have a baseline from before you started?
the trend line matters more than any single value
ApoB counts atherogenic particles rather than the cholesterol they carry, which is why it can diverge from LDL-C and why it is the addition most worth making.