Dr.NateNeph 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.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

Dr.NateNeph said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. No action needed from anybody.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.

pat_auckland said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.