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c/bloodwork·submitted 2 years ago by u/milos_trevino

the baseline labs thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down

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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…

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u/neha_rahimi48 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.

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u/santiago_rasmussen24 points·1 year ago

Not to be pedantic but bloodwork and A1c are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/emeka_chowdhury7 points·1 year ago·edited

post reference ranges with your numbers, units differ by country and lab

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u/skip_week_sceptic11 points·1 year ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/burned_once_twice9 points·1 year ago·edited

ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy

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u/mateusz_achebe2 points·1 year ago

Same lab both times?

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u/yara_mensah1 point·1 year ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

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What to measure before you start, what to re-measure, and how to interpret movement without panicking. ApoB over LDL-C, HOMA-IR as a crude free tool, ALT and the fatty-liver story, eGFR noise during rapid loss, and the deficiencies that a 1,100-calorie appetite will hand you.

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