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c/bloodwork·posted 7 months ago by u/thyroid_tangent

[Results] 67 weeks, 16kg, and A1c was the hard part

Results Well Actually ×1

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking bloodwork against ApoB for 15 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.

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u/coa_forgery_watch97 points·7 months ago

Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.

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u/heart_rate_bump76 points·7 months ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/neha_rahimi47 points·7 months ago

This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.

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u/cardio_endpoint_c39 points·7 months ago

This is correct.

Adding to this: lipids is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/janek_ferrari26 points·7 months ago

Same lab both times?

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u/noor_cardoso12 points·7 months ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

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u/step_therapy_s21 points·7 months ago

What are your reference ranges?

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u/yara_boateng5 points·7 months ago·edited

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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u/no_refunds_nr7 points·7 months ago

What are your reference ranges?

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

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u/cormac_erdogan-5 points·7 months ago
controversial sort brought me here and it was worth it
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u/lina_falk1 point·7 months ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/pavel_nkemelu8 points·7 months ago
four days. it took four days for me.
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