What can we really learn from home blood testing kits?
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Do You Have a Normal Range?
Doing lots of tests inevitably will throw up questions of false positive false negative results. We attempt to make it simpler by having what we commonly refer to as a normal range. The more testing you do the more likelihood that you will get abnormal results that actually aren't abnormal at all. If I measure 100 people and even though you might be normal by chance five of those tests will be outside of the normal range. That doesn't mean that it's an abnormal result for you it's your normal result.
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