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Carbon Dioxide, Total (CO₂)
Mostly reflects bicarbonate in routine chemistry testing and contributes to assessment of acid-base balance alongside electrolytes and clinical context.
What is measured?
The level, concentration or activity of this biomarker measured in the relevant blood sample.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, triglycerides and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider metabolic picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, triglycerides
How to get this tested?
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