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c/bloodwork·submitted 6 days ago by u/tomas_kimani

[Question] eGFR dropped 8 points during rapid loss, should i worry

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Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: eGFR matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 22 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 25 people measuring the same…

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u/bence_zamora9 points·4 days ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/micro_bump_mick2 points·4 days ago

ferritin from 5 to 31 is movement, not noise

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u/mikkel_kimani3 points·4 days ago·edited

Not to be pedantic but ApoB and eGFR are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/jonas_cardoso1 point·3 days ago·edited

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/liver_enzyme_lizMOD7 points·4 days ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/chidi_abubakar6 points·4 days ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 55 weeks to accept.

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u/intent_to_treat4 points·4 days ago

triglycerides from 7 to 25 is movement, not noise

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u/micro_bump_mick0 points·4 days ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/ravi_sandvik0 points·4 days ago

eGFR noise during rapid loss is expected

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u/lipid_panel_larrybloodwork1 point·4 days ago

Is that fasted?

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