Dr.LipidDallas said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
TomTeleRx said:No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here.
That reframing is the part I needed. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Dr.LipidDallas said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Pushing back on Dr.LipidDallas here. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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View ResultsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.