LipidDoc_ATL said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
oliver_london said:Agreed, and hsCRP is worth reading alongside them.
That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
LipidDoc_ATL said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Careful with treating an unchanged LDL-C as a failure. If ApoB and triglycerides both fell, the particle picture improved regardless of what the calculated LDL says.
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View ResultsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.
Worth separating that from the lipid panel, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
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