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c/bloodwork·submitted 1 year ago by u/pavel_nkemelu

help me understand ferritin, I have read the wiki twice

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Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: eGFR matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 4 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 7 people measuring the same thing…

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u/a1c_arcMOD174 points·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/blank_injection48 points·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 17 weeks to accept.

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u/intent_to_treat56 points·1 year ago

ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy

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u/lina_almeida40 points·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/pavel_nkemeluOP18 points·1 year ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/cardio_endpoint_c82 points·1 year ago

eGFR noise during rapid loss is expected

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u/yara_boateng21 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 16 weeks, not 39. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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