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Correct Answers (100% Pass)
insulin
✓ a hormone produced in the pancreas that promotes the absorption of
glucose from the blood
diabetes
✓ A condition in which the body is unable to produce enough insulin, the
hormone required for the metabolism of sugar or is not responding to
insulin
symptoms of diabetes
✓ polyuria (kidneys have difficulty filtering through all of the
water/glucose), polydipsia (caused because of polyuria),
hyperglycemia, fatigue, tingling pain, numbness in hands/feet, visual
disturbances, hunger and/or weight loss despite eating
type 1 diabetes mellitus
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✓ -diabetes caused by a total lack of insulin production; involves early
and abrupt onset; insulin-producing cells in pancreas are thought to be
destroyed by immune system; autoimmune disorder
✓ -most diagnosis is in children
hyperglycemia
✓ high blood sugar
Why does polydipsia occur in diabetics?
✓ intracellular dehydration and increase in blood osmolarity
Why does polyuria develop with diabetes mellitus?
✓ Osmotic pressure due to glucose
type 2 diabetes
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✓ -Diabetes of a form that develops especially in adults and most often
obese individuals and that is characterized by high blood glucose
resulting from impaired insulin utilization coupled with the body's
inability to compensate with increased insulin production. (insulin
resistance)
✓ -diagnosis is more common in adults
gestational diabetes
✓ a form of diabetes mellitus that occurs during some pregnancies;
increases risk of type 2 diabetes later
Pre-diabetes
✓ A condition in which a person's blood glucose levels are above normal
but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
Which type of diabetes is more common?
✓ Type 2
risk factors of diabetes
✓ race, age, genetics, weight, smoking, physical inactivity, etc
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complications of diabetes
✓ blindness, kidney failure, CVD, neuropathy and amputations,
hyperglycemic crises
why do the complications occur?
✓ kidney failure: the excessive amount of sugar in the blood causes
damage to kidney
✓ CVD, amputations, neuropathy: damage to nerves and vessels
(arms/legs)
Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
✓ -3,234 overweight, non-diabetic individuals with elevated fasting
glucose, randomly assigned to:
✓ -Lifestyle intervention
✓ -Metformin (med to reduce blood sugar)
✓ -Placebo
✓ -Both active interventions were effective, but the lifestyle intervention
more so than meds
Metformin
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