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

the ApoB thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down

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the ApoB thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this. Tracked triglycerides against the weight trend for a year. The…

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u/greta_chukwu489 points·1 year ago

Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration. Comparing across labs adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report.

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u/karl_fischer_kev392 points·1 year ago

Not convinced by the attribution. Weight loss alone moves that marker and you have no way to separate the two.

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u/burned_once_twiceOP-4 points·1 year ago

What did the repeat show?

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u/coa_forgery_watch1 point·1 year ago

Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.

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u/micro_bump_mick1 point·1 year ago

Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different.

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u/gustav_cardoso1 point·1 year ago

one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend

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