the baseline labs thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.
I have been tracking bloodwork against eGFR for 39 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.
Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.
tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.
best — the order this archive was captured in
I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.
Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.
My ferritin went from 4 to 10 in 27 weeks. The ALT story shows up in the trend, not the single number.
You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.
Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.
eGFR noise on rapid loss is real. 3 week noise, 30 week trend. Do not panic at week 18.
The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
baseline is the most important ferritin measurement, you cannot collect it later
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.
Ferritin tanked from 13 to 35. Small appetite, reduced iron intake, nobody was testing it until I asked.
Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.
Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.
A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty
This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking
This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.
post reference ranges with your numbers, units differ by country and lab
Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.
Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.
Not to be pedantic but bloodwork and A1c are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.
post reference ranges with your numbers, units differ by country and lab
Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.
ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy
Same lab both times?
Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.
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