Paid with a credit card and now I am paranoid about privacy — my results so far

NurseAsh_DET said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.

bbq_ray_KC said:

No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here.

That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

NurseAsh_DET said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

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.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

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.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.