BariatricNurseD said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
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.
SallyK_inj said:One addition: if the lab changes analytical platform between your draws, the comparison breaks and nobody tells you.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
BariatricNurseD said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Pushing back on BariatricNurseD here. 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.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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