Dr.PeteFamMed said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
Dr.PeteFamMed said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
Found this through search years later and it is still the best discussion of the question, so adding one thing. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
Dr.CardioMD said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. Posting only so the count is not one.