HPLC_Greg said:

Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.

True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.

Found this through search years later and it is still the best discussion of the question, so adding one thing. 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.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

Dr.EndoEP said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Second this. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

Dr.EndoEP said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Coming at Dr.EndoEP’s question from a different direction. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.