{"id":16659,"date":"2025-12-21T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/what-to-do-if-your-lab-results-are-borderline\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:00:11","slug":"what-to-do-if-your-lab-results-are-borderline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=16659","title":{"rendered":"What to do if your lab results are borderline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every week in clinic, I meet patients who carry lab results like heavy burdens. Their cholesterol is \u201cslightly high,\u201d their thyroid level is \u201cborderline,\u201d or their blood sugar is \u201cjust above normal.\u201d They arrive anxious, wanting certainty: Do I need treatment? Am I sick? The truth is, much of medicine exists in the gray zone<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/what-to-do-if-your-lab-results-are-borderline.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/what-to-do-if-your-lab-results-are-borderline.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">What to do if your lab results are borderline<\/a> originally appeared in <a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">KevinMD.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/what-to-do-if-your-lab-results-are-borderline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article at source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week in clinic, I meet patients who carry lab results like heavy burdens. Their cholesterol is \u201cslightly high,\u201d their thyroid level is \u201cborderline,\u201d or their blood sugar is \u201cjust above normal.\u201d They arrive anxious, wanting certainty: Do I need treatment? Am I sick? The truth is, much of medicine exists in the gray zone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}