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c/bloodwork·submitted 8 months ago by u/karl_fischer_kev

anyone else notice ferritin kicking in around week 84

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Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/t2dglp1 repeats that baseline labs 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…

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u/freya_baptista50 points·8 months ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/karl_fischer_kevOP36 points·8 months ago

eGFR noise on rapid loss is real. 5 week noise, 32 week trend. Do not panic at week 20.

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u/karl_fischer_kevOP19 points·8 months ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

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u/kofi_balogun22 points·8 months ago

ApoB from 7 to 34 is movement, not noise

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u/emil_okwuosa10 points·8 months ago

eGFR noise on rapid loss is real.

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

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u/signe_grimaldi3 points·8 months ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

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