Lipid panel improvements mega-thread — share your numbers

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

Following on from gary_naperville — and this may be the naive question:

Whether an unchanged LDL-C alongside a large triglyceride fall is a good result or a bad one, because ApoB and LDL-C seem to be telling different stories?

roxy_nash said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

I read this differently from roxy_nash, on substance rather than tone. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.

roxy_nash said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.