A 40-year-old member asked:
when is a blood level of alt dangerous?
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Dr. Ed Friedlander answered
Pathology 44 years experience
Find the cause: Level itself doesn't matter. It's a warning of possible underlying disease. You can raise your ALT very high just from a boozy weekend, while even a low ALT elevation may be the subtle clue that alerts your physician to hemochromatosis or Wilson's -- easy to treat, if detected, fatal if missed.
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Saudi Arabia
A 23-year-old female asked:
What is the normal range of ALT in the blood ?
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Dr. Ed Friedlander answered
Pathology 44 years experience
Units per liter: The top of the reference range is set at around 40 u/l for most labs, but this should not be confused with a 'healthy range'. Most folks are well-below, and ethnicity and heredity may affect what is right for a person. The key is to know what to do with a number. The higher a person is above reference range, the more worrisome.
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Peabody, MA
A 57-year-old female asked:
If ALT in blood , slightly high what's this mean ?
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Dr. Susan Rhoads answered
Family Medicine 38 years experience
Hard to say: One Lab result alone doesn't mean much. It depends on why the test was taken and your symptoms and the results of other lab work. An abnormal lab can be a temporary finding and may be normal when next tested. Discuss this with your doctor (or the person who ordered the test), if if is concerning, you will be told and a plan to follow it up will be done (Ideally).
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VA
A 56-year-old female asked:
Low white blood 3.6 L and high RDW 16.3 H and ALT 36 H?
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Dr. Ronald Krauser answered
Rheumatology 52 years experience
Not significant: None of those values is significant in the absence of clinical disease.
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