Findings
🕳️Missing coverage: heart, thyroid, sugar, vitamins
This package does not include tests from 4 key health areas.
🔁2 lines listing a test already listed›
See each one in the lab's own words, and why it counts once🎈40% of tests are low-yield: possible padding›
19 of 48 unique tests rarely change clinical management in routine screening.
- Absolute Basophil Count
- Absolute Eosinophil Count
- Absolute Lymphocyte Count
- Absolute Monocyte Count
- Absolute Neutrophil Count
- Mentzer Index
- Mean Platelet Volume
- Plateletcrit
- Platelet Distribution Width
- Platelet Large Cell Count
- Platelet Large Cell Ratio
- Chloride
- Phosphorus
- BUN / Creatinine Ratio
- A/G Ratio
- SGOT/SGPT Ratio
- Blood Urea Nitrogen
- Bilirubin Indirect
- Globulin
Listed more than onceA line in the lab's list that names a test already on the list. The advertised count goes up by one; you still get one result. We show the lab's own labels, exactly as printed, so you can check each one yourself.
2 lines of the advertised count come from 2 tests listed more than once.
- Same test, listed twiceTwo names for one test, or the same name printed twice. Often the test appears in two sections of the report, such as the lipid profile and a heart risk panel. It is one reading from one sample.+1 in the count
“RDW-CV” and “RDW (Red Cell Distribution Width)” are two names for RDW: one reading from one sample, so it counts once.
- Same result, written another wayOne result written a second way: sorted into a category, converted to other units, or turned upside down as the reciprocal ratio. Nothing new is measured.+1 in the count
BUN is blood urea divided by 2.14, so the BUN ratio and the urea ratio are one result written in two units.
Contents · 50 listed
🩸Blood
26- Absolute Basophil Countlow yield
- Absolute Eosinophil Countlow yield
- Absolute Lymphocyte Countlow yield
- Absolute Monocyte Countlow yield
- Absolute Neutrophil Countlow yield
- Basophilscore
- Eosinophilscore
- Hemoglobincore
- Lymphocytescore
- MCHcore
- MCHCcore
- MCVcore
- Mentzer Indexlow yield
- Monocytescore
- Mean Platelet Volumelow yield
- Neutrophilscore
- Plateletcritlow yield
- Hematocrit / PCVcore
- Platelet Distribution Widthlow yield
- Platelet Countcore
- Platelet Large Cell Countlow yield
- Platelet Large Cell Ratiolow yield
- RBC Countcore
- RDWlisted as “RDW-CV”conditional
- RDWlisted as “RDW (Red Cell Distribution Width)”conditional
- WBC Countcore
🟤Liver
12- A/G Ratiolow yield
- SGOT / ASTcore
- SGOT/SGPT Ratiolow yield
- Albumincore
- Alkaline Phosphatasecore
- Bilirubin Directcore
- Bilirubin Indirectlow yield
- Bilirubin Totalcore
- GGTconditional
- Globulinlow yield
- Total Proteincore
- SGPT / ALTcore
🫘Kidney
10- Chloridelow yield
- Serum Creatininecore
- eGFRcore
- Potassiumconditional
- Sodiumconditional
- BUN / Creatinine Ratiolisted as “Urea/Creatinine Ratio”low yield
- Uric Acidconditional
- Blood Ureacore
- Blood Urea Nitrogenlow yield
- BUN / Creatinine Ratiolisted as “BUN/Creatinine Ratio”low yield
🦴Bone
2- Phosphoruslow yield
- Calciumconditional
Real tests, and free maths
17 of these 48 aren’t tests. They’re arithmetic on results you already paid for. No extra sample, no extra assay, no extra cost to the lab. Each one still adds a line to the advertised count.
This package is advertised as 50 tests. 35% of what we could resolve is calculated rather than measured.
Show the arithmetic›what each calculated value is worked out from
- Absolute Basophil Count= WBC count × Basophil %
- Absolute Eosinophil Count= WBC count × Eosinophil %
- Absolute Lymphocyte Count= WBC count × Lymphocyte %
- Absolute Monocyte Count= WBC count × Monocyte %
- Absolute Neutrophil Count= WBC count × Neutrophil %
- MCH= Hemoglobin ÷ RBC count
- MCHC= Hemoglobin ÷ Haematocrit
- Mentzer Index= MCV ÷ RBC count
- Plateletcrit= Platelet count × MPV ÷ 10,000
- Platelet Large Cell Count= Platelet count × Platelet Large Cell Ratio
- eGFR= CKD-EPI equation on creatinine, age and sex
- BUN / Creatinine Ratio= Blood Urea Nitrogen ÷ Creatinine
- A/G Ratio= Albumin ÷ Globulin
- SGOT/SGPT Ratio= SGOT ÷ SGPT
- Blood Urea Nitrogen= Blood Urea ÷ 2.14
- Bilirubin Indirect= Total Bilirubin − Direct Bilirubin
- Globulin= Total Protein − Albumin
None of this means a calculated value is useless. eGFR is calculated and doctors act on it every day. The narrower point is the one that matters when you are comparing prices: these were not separately tested, so they should not be separately counted.
Every input above is itself on the same report. For example, Absolute Basophil Count needs nothing beyond WBC Count and Basophils, both already measured.