Articles from our pathology team on what your test results mean, how to prepare for a test, and the checks worth doing at every age.
The tests worth doing at 25 are not the ones worth doing at 55. A decade-by-decade guide to what to check, how often to repeat it, and which of it is not a blood test at all.
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SGPT is an injury signal rather than a function test, and creatinine depends on how much muscle you carry. The two panels ordered together in almost every package, read the way a laboratory reads them.
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Total cholesterol is the least useful line on the report. What LDL, non-HDL, triglycerides and Lp(a) each say, why Indian hearts are held to a lower bar, and whether you still have to fast.
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Haemoglobin tells you that you are anaemic. Ferritin, the red cell indices and, in this part of the country, a haemoglobin study tell you why, and the answer changes the treatment entirely.
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The CBC is the most ordered blood test in the country and the least explained. What the three cell lines measure, which indices point where, and why a flagged value is not yet a diagnosis.
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Dengue, malaria, typhoid and leptospirosis all begin the same way. Which test to do on which day, why an early dengue test can read negative, and the warning signs that mean go now.
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Both are common in India, both are easy to miss, and both hide behind symptoms people write off as ordinary tiredness. What to test, and what the results mean.
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A fasting sugar is a photograph; HbA1c is the three-month film. What each test can and cannot see, the thresholds doctors use, and when HbA1c quietly misleads.
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Why TSH moves in the opposite direction to your thyroid hormones, what the common result patterns mean, and why the range printed beside your value matters more than the number itself.
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