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c/bloodwork·submitted 3 months ago by u/liver_enzyme_liz

6 months in and baseline labs is still the thing I get wrong

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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 9 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/diego_almeida243 points·3 months ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/cold_chromatogram31100 points·3 months ago

This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.

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u/emeka_chowdhury-30 points·3 months ago

the 15 month eGFR check is the routine

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u/gentle_correctionMOD151 points·3 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/elise_grimaldi41 points·3 months ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/liver_enzyme_lizOP24 points·3 months ago

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

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u/diego_almeida120 points·3 months ago

Do you have baseline to compare to?

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u/blank_injection186 points·3 months ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/signe_grimaldi118 points·3 months ago

baseline is the most important eGFR measurement, you cannot collect it later

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