Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
TrialTracker_MD said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.
Worth separating that from cardiovascular outcomes, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
TrialTracker_MD said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.
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Shop Reference StandardsClinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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