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comment on how much of what we believe about ApoB actually comes from baseline labs threads in c/bloodwork · 85 points · 2 years ago
How to make a panel worth comparing, which is most of the value people leave on the table.
Standardise the conditions: same lab, same fasting state, same rough time of day, same point in the week, similar hydration. Take a baseline before you change anything. Repeat any surprising value before acting on it. Change one thing at a time if you want to attribute anything to it.
Do that and a year of panels is a trend. Skip it and a year of panels is a collection of unrelated mornings, which is what most of the alarmed posts here are actually describing.
comment on [PSA] lipids are not what most of this community thinks it is in c/bloodwork · 166 points · 2 years ago
This. Reference ranges are population intervals, not targets, and conflating them causes a lot of unnecessary alarm here.