TrialTracker_MD said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
TrialTracker_MD said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
TrialTracker_MD said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.
Dr.SleepRoch said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.