A1c — 9 things I got wrong before I got it right
A1c — 9 things I got wrong before I got it right — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. 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. My ApoB moved and I spent a…
Agreed on assay changes. A lab switching platforms between your draws is invisible unless you ask.
How many weeks between the two measurements?
This. Reference ranges are population intervals, not targets, and conflating them causes a lot of unnecessary alarm here.
How many weeks between the two measurements?
Adding the obvious one — take it to whoever ordered the panel. This board cannot read it for you.
Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.
the trend line matters more than any single value
draw at the same point in the week if you want comparability
ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one
Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can usefully do is help you ask better questions of somebody who can.
Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so.
Agreed — and standardising the draw conditions is the cheapest improvement available.