CSI Case 5 and 6 Flashcards
What is prediabetes?
Pre-diabetes means that your blood sugars are higher than usual, but not high enough for you to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes doesn’t have any symptoms.
Key risk factors for type 2 diabetes?
Ethnicity, genetics, high blood pressure, overweight, diet. Use of antipsychotic medication and glucocorticoids.
What are the core defects in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)?
Insulin resistance in muscle and the liver, and impaired insulin secretion by the pancreatic β-cells.
What happens to the secretion of hormones from the pancreas in type 2 diabetes?
Decreased insulin secretion from beta cells and increase glucagon secretion from alpha cells.
What are incretins and what do they do?
Incretins are gut hormones. One of their many physiological roles is to regulate the amount of insulin that is secreted after eating.
What organs/tissues are involved in type 2 diabetes and how are they involved?
Liver - Increased hepatic glucose production due to increased glucagon and increased sensitivity to glucagon.
Adipocytes - Accelerated lipolysis and increased plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels.
Kidneys - . Increased renal glucose reabsorption by the sodium/glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) and the increased threshold for glucose to be excreted in the urine contribute to the maintenance of hyperglycaemia.
What contributes to weight gain in type 2 diabetes?
Low brain dopamine and increased brain serotonin levels contribute to weight gain.
Symptoms of type 2 diabetes?
Polydipsia, nocturia, polyuria
Feeling very tired
Weight loss
Cuts or wounds take longer to heal
Blurred vision
Microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes? What causes microvascular complications?
Retinopathy, nephropathy and
neuropathy. Hyperglycemia (severity and duration).
Macrovascular complications of type 2 diabetes? What causes macrovascular complications?
Myocardial infarction, peripheral vascular disease
and stroke. Dyslipidaemia, hypertension,
hyperglycaemia and inflammation.
What causes insulin resistance?
Causes of the
insulin resistance include genetic abnormalities,
ectopic lipid accumulation, mitochondrial
dysfunction, inflammation and endoplasmic
reticulum stress.
What is insulin resistance simply put?
Impaired insulin receptor signalling.
What to drugs for type 2 diabetes target?
Hepatic glucose production, promote insulin secretion, increase sensitivity to insulin, act on the incretin axis or target intestinal and renal glucose absorption.
Single most important risk factor for type 2 diabetes?
BMI > 25.
What reaction converts glucose to pyruvate?
Glycolysis.
What reaction converts pyruvate to acetyl CoA?
Pyruvate oxidation.
What is the insulin dependent glucose transporter?
GLUT4.
Low affinity for glucose transporter?
GLUT2.
Where is GLUT4 located?
Adipocytes and myocytes.
Where is GLUT3 located?
Neurones and placenta.
Where is GLUT2 located?
Kidney, small intestine, liver and pancreatic beta cells.
Where is GLUT1 located?
Endothelium, erythrocytes, blood brain barrier.
High affinity glucose transporters?
GLUT3 and GLUT4.
How does insulin resistance work in a muscle cell? How does this cause pancreatic beta cell dysfunction?
GLUT4 isn’t translocated to cell membrane when insulin binds to insulin receptor. Results in excess glucose in the blood. Glucose in blood enters pancreatic beta cells as GLUT2 isn’t insulin dependent and causes beta cell dysfunction.
What are other names for prediabetes?
Borderline diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, impaired glucose regulation and non diabetic hyperglycaemia.
Normal fasting glucose?
Less than 6 mmol/l.
Fasting glucose for type 2 diabetes?
Greater than 7 mmol/l
What would someone who has impaired glucose tolerance have for glucose tests?
High post prandial glucose. 7.8 -11 mmol/l.
What would someone who has impaired fasting glucose have for glucose tests?
6.1-6.9 mmol/l fasting glucose and normal post prandial glucose (<7.8 mmol/l).
What are the two types of impaired glucose regulation?
Impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance.
What predominantly causes impaired fasting glucose?
Hepatic insulin resistance. Liver isn’t responding to insulin and so hepatic glucose output isn’t inhibited.
What predominantly causes impaired glucose tolerance?
Muscle insulin resistance and impaired post prandial insulin release. Muscle doesn’t take up glucose after a meal.
Examples of ectopic fat deposits? What does ectopic fat deposits lead to?
Intra muscular fat and fatty liver. Insulin resistance.
What is hba1c?
Glycated haemoglobin.
Advantages of HbA1c test?
No fasting necessary. Reflects long-term blood glucose concentration of 3 months. Quick results. Positive correlation of HbA1c with lipid profiles.
Disadvantages of HbA1c?
Test can only diagnose patient with diabetes if they have symptoms. HbA1c is normal for people who have recently developed diabetes. Conditions such as acute and chronic blood loss, haemolytic anaemia, splenomegaly and renal failure can all cause falsely lowered A1c results.
HbA1c level for diabetes?
> 48mmol/mol (6.5%).
What individuals can you not use HbA1c test to help diagnose diabetes?
Pregnant women, children, acutely ill patients.
What is metabolic syndrome?
Medical term for a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure (hypertension) and obesity.
What is the EAST framework for behavioural change?
Make it easy - offer a taster session, sessions at convenient times
Make it attractive - Offer incentives, highlight the benefits.
Make it social - Use commitment apps, deliver in group sessions.
Make it timely - Provide a deadline for signing up, text reminders to attend sessions and time orientated goals.
First line medication for type 2 diabetes?
Metformin.
Metformin advantage?
Broad targets, low side effects, cheap, doesn’t cause hypoglycaemia, causes weight loss.