HEALTH THE BASICS
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Author: Donatelle
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To determine: The incorrect statement.
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Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of diseases. However, all the diseases are characterized by one factor “high level of glucose in the body”. This refers to a high level of sugar in the body.
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A 58-year-old woman has had truncal obesity, fatigue, and hirsutism for 6 months. Blood pressure is 164/98 mm Hg. Laboratory studies show an increased serum cortisol concentration. ACTH is undetectable. Urinalysis is glucosuria. Which of the following is the most likely cause of these findings?
a. Adrenal adenoma
b. Adrenogenital syndrome
c. Autoimmune adrenalitis
d. Basophilic pituitary adenoma
e. Chromophobe pituitary adenoma
f. Small cell carcinoma of the lung
2. Match the hormone abnormality on the left with
the disease on the right.
too much ADH
a. gigantism
b. Diabetes mellitus
c. Dwarfism
too little insulin
d. SIADH
too little cortisol
too little thyroid hormone
too little growth hormone
too much thyroxine
too much cortisol
too much growth hormone
too many steroids
e. Graves disease
f. Addison's disease
g. changes in sexual characteristics, immune suppression,
rage
h. Hashimoto's thyroid
i. Cushing's diseas
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What is prediabetes?
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a. a condition similar to metabolic syndrome except that blood pressure is normal
b.
a consistent fasting plasma glucose of 100 to 125 mg/dL
another name for gestational diabetes
an AIC below 5.7%
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a disorder in which some complications of diabetes have developed but a diagnosis of diabetes has not
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