Dr.ObesityMed said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Agreeing with Dr.ObesityMed, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
sarah_nash92 said:One addition: if the lab changes analytical platform between your draws, the comparison breaks and nobody tells you.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them.
Dr.ObesityMed said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
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