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c/bloodwork·submitted 16 days ago by u/forest_plot_fiona

[Baseline] units differ by country, post your reference ranges or nobody can help

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Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on lipids in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the…

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u/edit_for_clarity46 points·16 days ago·edited

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

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u/forest_plot_fionaOPstats30 points·16 days ago

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/noor_cardoso16 points·16 days ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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u/flair_enthusiast-21 points·15 days ago

This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.

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u/forest_plot_fionaOPstats18 points·16 days ago

ApoB from 15 to 31 is movement, not noise

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u/ahmed_fonseca9 points·16 days ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/forest_plot_fionaOPstats6 points·16 days ago

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

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u/edit_for_clarity4 points·16 days ago

the 22 month ALT check is the routine

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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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