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Is TSH worth drawing at baseline before starting dulaglutide?

Asked 30 Jun 2025Modified 10 months agoViewed 25k times
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Stated plainly: TSH · dulaglutide.

This is a planning question. I know what my options are; I do not know how to weigh them.

What I want is the minimum viable version, which I suspect is smaller than what I would design.

What is the minimum version of this that is still defensible?

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askedayo_fadipe9.4k1630 Jun 2025

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The relevant statistical point is that a ninety-five per cent reference interval means one analyte in twenty will read out of range in a healthy person by construction.

A twenty-analyte panel run on a healthy person will produce, on average, one out-of-range result purely from how reference intervals are constructed. That is arithmetic rather than pathology.

Stated carefully, delta checks — comparing against your own previous value — are far more sensitive than comparing against a population interval, which is the argument for keeping a series rather than a snapshot.

External quality assurance schemes document between-laboratory differences on common analytes that routinely exceed the size of clinically interesting changes.

Keep the full report, not the number. You will need the units and the interval later.

edited 26 Sept 2025 by fiadh_cronin — removed a claim I could not source

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2Is the assay method stated on your report? Two immunoassays for the same analyte do not agree with each other. – nominal_ten 3 months ago
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