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3. Glucose and Carbohydrate Metabolism (Part III) Flashcards

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What is the general age of onset for T2DM?

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Over 40 years old

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What are the two risk factors for T2DM?

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  • Visceral obesity
  • Heredity
  • African, native American, Asian, Pacific Island, and Southern European origin
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Why isn’t T2DM considered to be adult-onset diabetes anymore?

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As an increase in adiposity in youth may trigger its onset as well

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Why isn’t T2DM considered to be non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus anymore?

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Because as the disease advances, even if the issue is with insulin sensitivity, a person may require exogenous insulin

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What percentage of individuals with diabetes have T2DM?

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90%

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How many people will become diabetic by the year 2025?

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300 million

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How many Canadians have diabetes? How many will have diabetes by the end of the decade?

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  • 2 million

- 3 million

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Why is diabetes underestimated?

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As it is a late-onset disease

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What factors are causing the increased rate of diabetes?

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  • Population is aging
  • Obesity rates are rising
  • Canadian lifestyles are increasingly more sedentary
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What are the symptoms of T2DM?

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  • Glucosuria
  • Ketonuria
  • Dehydration
  • Weight loss
  • Increased appetite (polyphagia)
  • Hyperglycemia
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What is the renal threshold for glucose?

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10 mM/L

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What are the symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis?

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  • Drowsiness
  • Lethargy
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
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Why does dehydration particularly affect the elderly?

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Since people don’t tend to listen to their thirst signals as much as they get older

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Why does severe T2DM lead to weight loss?

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Because glucose is not used, but spilled in the urine

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What is the FIRST symptom of T2DM?

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  • Increased insulin
  • Peripheral tissues are not sensitive to insulin
  • Pancreas continually secretes insulin to get the high blood glucose into cells
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When does fasting blood glucose rise in T2DM?

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  • AFTER the rise of insulin levels

- After awhile, the pancreas must work harder to produce enough insulin to maintain euglycemia

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What are the consequences of hyperglycemia?

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  • Increased infections
  • Decreased blood flow
  • Decreased wound healing
18
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What is administered in the ICU to decrease complications and infections?

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What becomes resistant in T2DM?

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GLUT4, which is normally insulin-mediated, becomes insulin resistant

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What does the hyperstimulation of B-cells in T2DM cause?

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Exhausts B-cell, which may no longer sustain the high insulin production, resulting in the requirement for exogenous insulin

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What metabolic effects are caused by insulin resistance?

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  • Binding of insulin to receptor are decreased
  • Less GLUT4 synthesized and transported to the surface (decreases glucose uptake)
  • Decreased anabolic response within the cell
  • Blunted protein synthesis response
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How is the inflammatory nature of obesity linked to insulin resistance?

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  • Excess fatty acids are metabolized in cells that do not have glucose, which sets up a disequilibrium in cell metabolism
  • Causes ER stress
  • Cell cannot cope with the lack of homeostasis
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What is exacerbating the hyperinsulin state?

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The high rate of gluconeogenesis, while blood glucose is already high

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What are the effects of diabetes in GLUT4 peripheral tissues?

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  • Decreased glucose uptake
  • Fat-based economy
  • Accumulation of Acetyl-CoA
  • Increase in muscle proteolysis
  • High rate of gluconeogenesis
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What are the effects of diabetes in the liver?
- Increased glucose uptake increases glycogenesis and lipogenesis - Increased VLDL and LDL (atherosclerosis) - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
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How is atherosclerosis increased in T2DM?
- High glucose uptake by the liver induces lipogenesis | - Synthesis of VLDL, which increases LDL and causes the invasion of artery walls
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What are the effects of diabetes in non-GLUT4 peripheral tissues?
- Increased glucose uptake | - Results in damaging effects of the hyperglucose state
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What effects link diabetes and cardiovascular disease?
- Increased lipogenesis - Increased VLDL secretion - Increased oxidation and glycation of LDL
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How does higher LDL promote atherosclerosis?
- LDL is more likely to be damaged - Uptake by the liver and LDLR receptor is lower - Increases plaque formation and atherosclerosis
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What are the functions of metformin?
- Decrease hepatic gluconeogenesis - Increase peripheral insulin sensitivity - Increase GLUT4-mediated glucose uptake - Increase fatty acid oxidation
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What are the four net effects of metformin?
- Decreases hepatic steatosis - Increases liver insulin sensitivity - Decreases plasma glucose - Decreases plasma triglycerides
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What is metformin's mechanism of action?
- Increased phosphorylation activates AMPK - Decreases SREBP-1 activity - Increases hepatic fatty acid oxidation and decreases fatty acid synthesis
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What is the function of sulphonylureas?
Increases insulin production and release
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What is the function of Toujeo?
- Made of long-acting insulin microcrystals | - Allows insulin to act over a period of 24-hours, providing a basal insulin level
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What are incretins? Give an example.
- SGLT2 inhibitors | - Farxiga
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What was recommended in the 1930s for diabetes? Why did it change?
- Low-carb, high-fat diet | - They realized that excess fat synthesis is responsible for many of the symptoms observed in diabetes
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What is the AMDR for protein? How much is recommended in diabetics? Are we thinking of changing the amount?
- 10 to 35% - 15% recommendation - As protein metabolism may also be resistant to insulin, the recommendations should be increased
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What is the key to management of T2DM?
- Weight management and activity | - Decrease in 10% of an individual's body weight over a period of 6 months is enough to increase insulin sensitivity
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How may surgery influence diabetes?
- The stress reaction may exacerbate diabetes | - Increased insulin resistance (hyperglycemia and protein breakdown)
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What aids in the loss of body protein?
Nutrition support
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What aids in the neuroendocrine response causing insulin resistance and hyperglycemia?
Epidural (analgesia)
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How does loss of body protein negatively influence the response to surgery?
- Immunosuppression (delayed wound healing) | - Muscle wasting (delayed convalescence)

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