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c/bloodwork·submitted 13 days ago by u/santiago_szabo

[Results] hs-CRP halved before the scale moved much

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hs-CRP halved before the scale moved much, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different. Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can…

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u/emil_okwuosa262 points·12 days ago

Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population. By construction one person in twenty falls outside one on any given test without anything being wrong.

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u/customs_seizure_sid0 points·12 days ago

Repeat testing before acting is standard practice for a reason: regression to the mean does a lot of work on single outlying values.

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u/mikkel_ogunleye0 points·12 days ago

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

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u/kenji_kimani1 point·11 days ago

This. Reference ranges are population intervals, not targets, and conflating them causes a lot of unnecessary alarm here.

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u/thermal_mass_tom-3 points·11 days ago

Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.

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