Falling ferritin is not always falling iron
A substantial proportion of the abnormal results generated during rapid weight loss are consequences of the weight loss rather than findings about the person.
Bloodwork
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Vitamin D, adiposity, and a volume-of-distribution problem
Micronutrient guidance for this drug class is borrowed almost entirely from post-bariatric surveillance, where the anatomy is different and the deficiency mechanisms are not…
Micronutrient monitoring: which panel, how often, and on whose evidence
Micronutrient guidance for this drug class is borrowed almost entirely from post-bariatric surveillance, where the anatomy is different and the deficiency mechanisms are not…
Thiamine and the vomiting patient
What the trials measured, which in the case of micronutrients is very little.
Which results are findings and which are consequences of the weight loss
A substantial proportion of the abnormal results generated during rapid weight loss are consequences of the weight loss rather than findings about the person.
Reading HbA1c in the presence of anaemia
The alternatives with shorter windows, what they measure, and why they are rarely ordered.
A guide to the results that will resolve themselves
The panel drawn during a week of vomiting is measuring the vomiting.