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c/bloodwork·submitted 2 months ago by u/janek_ferrari

ferritin — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right

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ferritin — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. 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. Compared two draws across two labs and…

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u/bence_zamora29 points·2 months ago

ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one

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u/ahmed_fonseca14 points·2 months ago·edited

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.

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u/transit_variance7 points·1 months ago

do not change three things and then read the panel

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u/greta_chukwu10 points·1 months ago·edited

That is a non-fasting value and the interval you are comparing it against is a fasting one.

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u/janek_ferrariOP19 points·2 months ago

bring the numbers to someone qualified to read them

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u/mikkel_kimani-19 points·2 months ago

a single eGFR outside range is a reason to repeat, not to panic

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u/janek_ferrari1 point·1 months ago

Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this.

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u/osman_eriksen1 point·1 months ago

lab reference ranges are not treatment targets

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