Your blood work, on the edge of normal

Laboratory with nurse taking a blood sample from patient, in bac

Harvard Health Letters As a smart medical consumer, you know it’s important to look over the results of your routine blood work, even when the numbers are all within the normal range. But what if you notice that some results are at the high or low end of that range? Should you be concerned about […]

What To Do When Blood Test Results are Not Quite ‘Normal’

Hand holding four vials of blood

By Heidi Godman Harvard Health Blog Picture this: You’re reading the results of your recent bloodwork, and you notice some numbers are teetering on the edge of the normal range. Should you be concerned? “It’s tricky, because in some tests, a borderline result makes no difference. In others, it might indicate an important change in […]