paige_pharma said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
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.
dave_SLC said:Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask.
paige_pharma said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. 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.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.