Dr.Martinez said:baseline bloodwork + this community = winning.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
BrianDallas92 said:Agreed, and reference ranges are laboratory-specific.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Dr.Martinez said:baseline bloodwork + this community = winning.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
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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.
Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.