tried ApoB for 18 weeks. here is what happened.
tried ApoB for 18 weeks. here is what happened, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. To save the first four comments: 18 weeks. Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different. Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me…
Repeat testing before acting is standard practice for a reason: regression to the mean does a lot of work on single outlying values.
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Brought the whole set to my clinician rather than one flagged value. Completely different conversation.
Same view — ApoB if you add one thing. It answers a question the standard panel only gestures at.
Right, and weight loss itself moves several markers, so attribution is harder than these threads assume.
Did anything else change in that window — training, intake, hydration?
Disagree with reading anything into that. One value, one morning, and you changed two other things in the same window.
Not convinced by the attribution. Weight loss alone moves that marker and you have no way to separate the two.
Not convinced by the attribution.
This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.