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c/bloodwork·submitted 10 months ago by u/emil_agyeman

[PSA] ALT is not what most of this community thinks it is

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Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on ApoB 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/vito_chowdhury56 points·9 months ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/amara_dziedzic19 points·9 months ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/tomas_kimani12 points·9 months ago·edited

the 21 month eGFR check is the routine

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u/iman_falk-30 points·9 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/lipid_panel_larrybloodwork4 points·9 months ago

ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy

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u/bence_zamora10 points·9 months ago

Same lab both times?

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u/neha_rahimi4 points·9 months ago

Same lab both times?

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

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u/bac_water_banditreconstitution1 point·9 months ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/emil_agyemanOP4 points·9 months ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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