three years of baseline labs threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.
I have been tracking bloodwork against ApoB for 33 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.
Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.
tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.
best — the order this archive was captured in
eGFR noise on rapid loss is real. 22 week noise, 19 week trend. Do not panic at week 7.
A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty
Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.
Same lab both times?
ferritin tanks quietly on a reduced appetite, check it
Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.
The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.
This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.
Is that fasted?
eGFR from 14 to 4 is movement, not noise
nobody here can tell you what a result means for you
Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.
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