Diabetes 2 Flashcards
Diabetes and Exercise (5)
- Promotes cardiovascular fitness, control weight, enhance self-esteem
- Children with diabetes should not be excluded from participation in sports activities
a. Coaches educated about diabetes; glucagon available - Physical activity guidelines same – 60 minutes/day
- Challenge – control of blood glucose levels during and after exercise
a. Blood glucose monitoring – before, during and after exercise
b. Snacks around the time of exercise
c. Adjustment of insulin dosing to counterbalance effect of exercise - How exercise affects glucose levels varies by type, duration and intensity of exercise
a. Aerobic → Generally will lower blood glucose levels pretty quickly
b. Anaerobic (ex: weight lifting) → May increase BS in short term and then lower BS several hours after
Blood Glucose Instability: Hypoglycemia (5)
a. Too much insulin
b. Delayed meal or snack
c. Failure to eat all of meal or snack
d. More active than usual
e. Gastroenteritis
Blood Glucose Instability: Hyperglycemia (5)
a. Too little insulin
b. Too much food
c. Decreased activity
d. Stress
e. Sick
Ongoing Clinical Management – Visits q3-4 Months (7)
- Visit tailored by age and developmental stage
- Blood glucose records, hypoglycemia frequency
- HbA1c
- Physical activity
- Emotional adjustment
- School and social issues
- Eating issues; Diabulemia – insulin decreased/omitted to lose weight
Ongoing Clinical Management: General (8)
- Growth and weight gain
a. Expect them to be growing normally
b. If their weight is growing a lot more than their height → are they eating healthily? Exercise? Figure out what is going on - Blood pressure
- Stage of puberty
- Injection site assessment
- Assessment for other autoimmune disease
* Thyroiditis, celiac disease - Continued well child health supervision and appropriate immunizations, e.g. flu vaccine
- Monitoring for complications
- Referral to nutritionist, Communication with school personnel
T2DM Pathophysiology (6)
- Genetic predisposition
- Insulin resistance
a. Growth hormone
b. Pubertal hormones - Impaired beta cell function
- Inadequate insulin secretion
- Generally insidious onset
* Often recognized at routine visit - Small number of children present in DKA (8% in one study)
Epidemiology of T2DM (5)
- Emerged concurrently with rising prevalence of overweight and obesity in American youth
- One third (31.8%) of American children are either overweight or obese (Ogden, 2014)
- Minority children have higher prevalence rates for overweight and obesity
* 36.1% African American girls and 37.0% Latina girls overweight or obese compared to 29.2% of non Hispanic white girls - Type 2 diabetes better recognized
- Comorbidities more likely to be present at time of diagnosis
T2DM In Youth (2)
- Today approximately 50% of youth diagnosed with diabetes during adolescence have T2DM
- T2DM disproportionately affects disadvantaged children
Evidence Based Treatment Options for T2DM in Adolescents and Youth (5)
Safety and efficacy of 3 treatments
- Metformin 500-1000 mg bid
- Metformin (500-1000 mg bid) + rosiglitazone (4 mg bid)
- Metformin + intensive lifestyle intervention
Enrollment target
4. 750 children age 10-17 years
- Outcome: time to treatment failure defined as HbA1c>8%
T2DM Treatment Goals (6)
- Promote weight loss
- Normalize glycemia and HbA1c
- Prevent/control hypertension and hyperlipidemia
- Increase exercise capability
- Reduce acanthosis nigricans
- BEHAVIOR CHANGE!!
T2DM Treatment Recommendations at diagnosis (4)
- Initiate insulin therapy for youth with T2DM who are ketotic or DKA or when type of diabetes is unclear
- Initiate insulin therapy for youth
* Random venous or plasma BG ≥250 mg/dl OR A1c >9%
Otherwise
3. Lifestyle modification including nutrition and physical activity
- Start metformin
T2DM Treatment and Management with Goals (7)
- Metformin alone inadequate to treat T2DM
* You need to make the blood glucose environment amenable to Metformin first; lower it to an amenable level - Metformin–first line drug
a. Reduces A1c
b. Minimal risk of hypoglycemia
c. Effect on reducing LDL cholesterol - Monitor A1c q3months; intensity treatment if A1c goals are not being met
a. Target A1c goal <7%
b. If monotherapy fails can add additional oral hypoglycemic agent or insulin - Fingerstick blood glucose monitoring
a. Taking insulin or other meds with hypoglycemia risk
b. Initiating or changing diabetes treatment regimen
c. Have not met treatment goals
d. Intercurrent illness - Fingersticks should be performed ≥3 times daily when using multiple insulin injections or insulin pump therapy
* Fasting goal 70-130 mg/dl - For less-intensive therapy, finger-stick BG monitoring may be useful as a guide to the success of therapy.
- To achieve postprandial glucose targets, postprandial finger-stick BG monitoring may be appropriate.
Dietary Recommendations to Reduce Calorie Intake and Promote Weight Loss (9)
- Eat regular meals and snacks
- Reduce portion sizes
- Choose calorie-free beverages, except for milk
- Limit juice to 1 cup per day
- Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables
- Consume 3 or 4 servings of low-fat dairy products per day
- Limit intake of high-fat foods
- Limit frequency and size of snacks
- Reduce calories consumed in fast- food meals
Screening for T2DM (4)
- Children 10 years of age or older
- BMI >85th percentile with ≥2 risk factors:
a. + family history of Type 2 in 1st or 2nd degree relatives
b. Race/ethnicity: higher in ethnic minorities
c. Signs of or conditions associated with insulin resistance
i. Acanthosis nigricans
ii. Hypertension
iii. Dyslipidemia
iv. Polycystic ovary disease - Screen q3 years with fasting plasma glucose
- Yearly glucose screens for obesity (95th%ile and above)
Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) (7)
- Group of autosomal dominant single gene disorders that resemble type 1 or type 2 diabetes
- Impaired insulin secretion without significant defects in insulin action
a. Similar to type 1 but it isn’t autoimmune, it’s really a gene disorder - Lack pancreatic autoimmunity
- Lower insulin requirements than someone with T1DM would have
- Positive family history of diabetes
- Younger, less likely to be overweight or obese, less likely to be from an ethnic minority group
- Treatment varies and can include insulin, sulfonylureas, etc.