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

A1c vs baseline labs — genuinely asking which matters more

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Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/meta repeats that ALT is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 2 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 because it has been…

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u/santiago_rasmussen41 points·1 year ago
nope. mine was the opposite.
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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch20 points·1 year ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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[deleted]14 points·1 year ago

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u/osman_eriksen4 points·1 year ago

ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy

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u/mikkel_kimani-2 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/nayeli_iyer19 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/nikhil_asante6 points·1 year ago

the 6 month bloodwork check is the routine

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u/bac_water_banditreconstitution11 points·1 year ago

eGFR noise during rapid loss is expected

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