Work has stopped me moving the calculator forward but I've added a couple of blank rows to the table - so you can add your own blood markers in, e.g. TRAb. You can enter the name, units, min, max and result.
I would like to address SeasideSusie comment about Vitamin D and displaying "insufficient", etc rather than the percentage. I'd also like to add some kind of unit conversion to allow people from other countries to use it.
Still happy to hear other any comments!
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I'm wondering if this is becoming a little too complicated and maybe some things are unnecessary.
I'd also like to add some kind of unit conversion to allow people from other countries to use it.
I saw that this is mentioned on your original thread earlier today, one member wrote
ferritin is often given in ng/ml at the laboratories and ft4 in ng/l and folate ng/ml. Here the units are different from laboratory to laboratory, so it is a little complicated to use the great computer.
Does the unit of measurement matter? What does matter is where in the range the result lies, regardless of unit of measurement it's going to be low, optimal, high, etc, 50% of a range is 50% of a range whatever the unit of measurement is.
Also on this subject, the T4:T3 ratio is only applicable where the units of measurement for FT4 and FT3 are the same. [They are in the UK but not necessarily in other countries. If anyone wants to change from one unit of measurement to another it's easy enough to find a calculator on Google.]
What complicates things even more is the nonsense given by Medichecks that their new lab INUVI has provided them with regarding the ranges for ferritin. Have a read through this thread and this link is to today's addition:
We have known about the difference in ferritin ranges between males and females, but now we are seeing this new, super wide range for the over 60s of either sex, and it appears it's only that lab, and none of the other labs - private or NHS - that use it. And many NHS ranges are the same for both male and female. The confusion with ferritin is never ending.
I would like to address SeasideSusie comment about Vitamin D and displaying "insufficient", etc rather than the percentage.
Yes, definitely percentage through range is not useful for Vit D because of the different categories and what is regarded as "sufficient" by the labs is not the same as what is recommended by the dedicated Vit D websites - Vit D Council, Vit D Society, Grassroots Health. So maybe for Vit D it's best to just put result plus unit of measurement (no ranges) then left to be interpreted and being pointed in the right direction by members who respond to interpretation of tests.
If you are on Levo only you can see how well you convert T4 to T3 by looking at the ratio. Good conversion takes place when the T4:T3 ratio is 4:1 or less.
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