nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning
Something I keep coming back to: nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning. Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding. Draw at the same point in the week now, fasting, same lab. The noise dropped enormously once I standardised.…
Agreed on assay changes. A lab switching platforms between your draws is invisible unless you ask.
a single A1c outside range is a reason to repeat, not to panic
Fasting or not, and what time of day?
Brought the whole set to my clinician rather than one flagged value. Completely different conversation.
Same view — ApoB if you add one thing. It answers a question the standard panel only gestures at.
Same view — ApoB if you add one thing.
Adding the obvious one — take it to whoever ordered the panel. This board cannot read it for you.
Brought the whole set to my clinician rather than one flagged value.
edit_for_clarity is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.