Johnyascorbate wrote:
Quest's range is <75 mol/l
Not really the range is <75 nmol/L per Quest web page!
http://www.questdiagnostics.com/testcen ... ein%28a%29The reference range cutpoint (75 nmol/L) approximates the Lp(a) 75th percentile in the Framingham Heart Study.
Now let’s convert nmol/L to umol/L
So she had a 158 nmol/l reading from Quest!
So we go here and poke in 158 to convert it to standard umol/l for LP(a) and we get .158 umol/l.
http://www.endmemo.com/sconvert/umol_lnmol_l.phpNow we convert this to mg/dL - LP(a)
We do this here and we come up with!!!
http://www.endmemo.com/medical/unitconv ... rotein.php4.4257 mg/dl
So in reality the Quest reading was actually about 1/3 of the VAP test reading!
However like Owen said One is weight of the product in serum and the Vap is the amount in a quantity of the serum! So that could account for the difference.
Me! I would go with the VAP test readings.
13mg/dl isn’t all that bad start some Niacin at bed time and cut the sugar down to nill and it should drop if not she may have some inflammation going on somewhere which could be allergies or a cold or such! But I wouldn’t panic with a 13 make sure she stays on her Pauling therapy and maybe up her V-C a little.
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