Kenrick is a 45-year-old Teaching Aide, who recently suffers with numbness in his foot and tingling in his hands. To his knowledge he has no medical conditions and never bothered to check. Six-months ago, he noticed that his vision is a bit blurred, sometimes he may have floating clouds in his vision that are not actually there which usually clear on its own. Kenrick is four feet seven inches and weighs 200 lbs, medium-frame built but an apple-shaped body-type. He has a waist is 120 centimetres and a hip of 90 centimetres. He is not physically active and seldom cooks during the working-week. He enjoys red velvet chocolate-lemon frosted cake, ice-cream and fried foods. Every two days he binge-watches television shows and consume half a box of cereal, large order Chinese special and/or one 12-slice pizza. Last Tuesday Kenrick visited the doctor and was ordered to return in two days to complete and OGT and a glycated haemoglobin test (GHT). (i) Summarize the OGT and GHT process and discuss the physiological expectations of these tests? (ii) What is the illness/disease that the doctor is trying to rule out? Be sure to classify and give physiological explanations. (iii) What are Kenricks’s modifiable risk factors?
Kenrick is a 45-year-old Teaching Aide, who recently suffers with numbness in his foot and tingling in his hands. To his knowledge he has no medical conditions and never bothered to check. Six-months ago, he noticed that his vision is a bit blurred, sometimes he may have floating clouds in his vision that are not actually there which usually clear on its own. Kenrick is four feet seven inches and weighs 200 lbs, medium-frame built but an apple-shaped body-type. He has a waist is 120 centimetres and a hip of 90 centimetres. He is not physically active and seldom cooks during the working-week. He enjoys red velvet chocolate-lemon frosted cake, ice-cream and fried foods. Every two days he binge-watches television shows and consume half a box of cereal, large order Chinese special and/or one 12-slice pizza. Last Tuesday Kenrick visited the doctor and was ordered to return in two days to complete and OGT and a glycated haemoglobin test (GHT).
(i) Summarize the OGT and GHT process and discuss the physiological expectations of these tests?
(ii) What is the illness/disease that the doctor is trying to rule out? Be sure to classify and give physiological explanations.
(iii) What are Kenricks’s modifiable risk factors?
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