Lecture #38 - Diabetes

Question 1

List the 7 symptoms of a diabetic (type 1)

Answer 1

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Question 2

For both type 1 and type 2 - what’s the thing with:

1. Other names
2. Defect
3. Age of onset
4. Bodily physique
5. Prevalence (whole pop)
6. Cause
7. Treatment

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Question 3

High blood glucose

• what level in blood
• when does it become a problem
• one effect that leads to two things which leads to one thing and there’s a separate thing too

Low blood glucose

• what level
• when does it become a problem
• 6 things that happen

Why is 5millimol/L good?

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Question 4

Balance of glucose during the day - what does the graph look like for diabetics? What about John Smith’s graph? What is the take home message from that

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Question 5

5 long term complications of high BG (basically like what you did in flashcard #3)

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Question 6

Insulin

1. What is it? (two words)
2. Synethesised in what?
3. secreted in response to?
4. Acts on what three things?

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Question 7

What 4 things does insulin make go and what 5 things does it make stop?

How does insulin have effect? (in the green)

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Question 8

How do we tell how well insulin is working?

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Question 9

What are the metabolic consequences of lack of insulin? 7 (think of diagram)

In the insulin deficiency diagram, 4 things happen and 5 effects

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Question 10

What’s the treatment for type 1 diabetes?

Type 2?

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