kate.chem said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
Worth restating a point from upthread for anyone joining at this page:
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.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong. The measurement I was reading had moved less than its own week-to-week variation, which somebody said upthread and I did not believe.
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Browse GL BiochemDr.NutriCornell said:Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
Reprising the part of this that the last few posts have moved away from:
Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.
Coming back to something from earlier in the thread, because it keeps being talked past:
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