Dr.EndoIndy said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Coming at Dr.EndoIndy’s question from a different direction. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
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View ResultsBiostatsBrad said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
BiostatsBrad said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.