Dr.PulmRoch said:ApoB is the more informative number and it is cheap.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
sarah_TO said:My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from a UK pharmacy.
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 ResultsThe 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.
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.