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Triglycerides respond to change faster than almost any other blood value. Alcohol, sugary drinks and weight are the thre...
HOMA-IR condenses your fasting glucose and insulin into a single number. You can work it out yourself from two values on...
Prediabetes means a fasting glucose between 6.1 and 6.9 mmol/l. It is not diabetes, and it is precisely at this stage th...
Metabolic syndrome is not a disease but a cluster of five risk factors. Three or more abnormal factors count, and three...
In insulin resistance your cells respond less well to insulin and your pancreas makes more of it. Your fasting glucose s...
An elevated lipase rarely means pancreatitis. The degree of elevation says more than the word elevated, and on GLP-1 med...
An underactive thyroid usually explains a few kilos, not thirty. Eight factors that play a part between thyroid and weig...
Tired and forgetful at the same time? Your GP checks a fixed set of blood values. Not to find dementia, but to find caus...
What your liver values ALAT, ASAT and gamma-GT mean after 60, what can cause an abnormal result and when a check is wort...
You feel fine but wonder whether a check is wise. Which blood values are worth knowing after 60, and how to choose with...
Which blood values shift after 60, why that happens, and which check is worthwhile. Explained value by value in plain la...
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