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c/bloodwork·submitted 7 months ago by u/coa_forgery_watch

reading A1c threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

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Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/meta repeats that ALT is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 23 threads of people agreeing with each other. Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been…

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u/forest_plot_fionastats-28 points·7 months ago

Crossposting this to c/meta because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/peptidemeter_pat1 point·7 months ago

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

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u/santiago_rasmussen1 point·7 months ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/thermal_mass_tom1 point·7 months ago

baseline is the most important eGFR measurement, you cannot collect it later

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u/janek_ferrari1 point·7 months ago

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

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u/copay_card_cc1 point·7 months ago

ferritin tanks quietly on a reduced appetite, check it

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u/nayeli_iyer1 point·7 months ago

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

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u/coa_forgery_watchOP1 point·7 months ago

My hs-CRP went from 15 to 20 in 24 weeks. The ALT story shows up in the trend, not the single number.

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u/yara_mensah1 point·7 months ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/heart_rate_bump1 point·7 months ago

What are your reference ranges?

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u/kaia_kuusela1 point·7 months ago

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

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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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