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Can you drink coffee before a metabolic profile?
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No,you should be: fasting
Answered 5/29/2016
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Nothing means nothin: A metabolic profile is a "snapshot" or picture of what your bodies changing systems are doing at the point the blood is drawn.The research behind it requires the patient be at a comparable point with other test subjects.When they say don't eat/drink ANYTHING before the study that is what they mean.If they want to study subjects after coffee, they would require all to drink it & specify the amount
Answered 3/24/2017
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