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Micronutrient status when intake falls substantially — a second dataset

Clinical › Bloodwork thyroid function eGFR & renal function lipid panel lipase & amylase HbA1c Closed

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NorringtonTL3Regular7 Sep 2024 · edited#2

Narrowing the opening post, because the general version has more than one answer.

The confident answers on Micronutrient status and the well-sourced answers are not the same answers, which is the most useful thing I have learned reading this category.

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m.yildizTL25 Oct 2024#3

Repeat before acting is standard practice for an isolated abnormal result on most analytes, and it is standard for a reason.

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j.marchettiTL24 Jan 2025#7

Noted, and thank you for writing it out rather than summarising it.

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d.ferreiraTL228 Apr 2025#13

Time of day: some biomarkers vary across the day. Cortisol in the morning differs from cortisol in the evening. Comparing results from different times of day is comparing things that are not the same.

That is my reading. Someone else read the same page differently and was reasonable.

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batchlogTL3Regular15 May 2025#14

Reference intervals: constructed to contain the central 95% of a reference population, which means one in twenty healthy people falls outside one by definition. Add biological variation and analytical imprecision and the base rate of a meaningless flag is substantial.

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