Originally Posted by
Kazzin
I bothered to look into the 2017 changes to the reference ranges for total T. Looks like it just came out of a bigger, more recent set of data.
But what blew my mind is that the reference range is the central 95%. So to fall inside the range you just have to be higher than the minuscule bottom 2.5% of the population. I understand this is a fairly standard range for other markers, but is this really appropriate here? In other words, they have ARBITRARILY decided that only 2.5% of the population has hypogonadism.