tried A1c for 18 weeks. here is what happened.
tried A1c for 18 weeks. here is what happened, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. 18 weeks. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour. Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this. Draw at the same…
Time of day, fasting state, hydration and recent exercise all move common markers. Standardising the draw conditions is free and it removes most of the apparent variability.
Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.
same lab, same conditions, or you are comparing noise
Disagree with reading anything into that. One value, one morning, and you changed two other things in the same window.
This. Reference ranges are population intervals, not targets, and conflating them causes a lot of unnecessary alarm here.
Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.
Disagreeing with this bit: that change is confounded by the weight loss itself and cannot be attributed.
Disagreeing with this bit: that change is confounded by the weight loss itself and cannot be attributed.
yara_mensah is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.
Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population. By construction one person in twenty falls outside one on any given test without anything being wrong.
Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population.
This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.
ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one
That comparison crosses two labs with different assays. The difference you are describing may be the method.
Right, and weight loss itself moves several markers, so attribution is harder than these threads assume.