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Does ALT tell me anything about hepatic fat on cagrilintide?

Asked 20 Mar 2024Modified 2.4 years agoViewed 39k times
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Details up front: ALT · cagrilintide.

I keep seeing this stated as a fact with no explanation attached, and unexplained facts make me suspicious.

My background is quantitative but not chemical, so I can follow an equation more easily than a hand-wave.

Is the standard explanation correct, and if so, what is the evidence for it?

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8Same situation here, so I will follow this one. – tenth_of_a_unit 5 months ago
7Which analyte, and what reference interval did the laboratory print beside it? – marta_okonkwo 4 months ago
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