Lecture #38 - Diabetes Flashcards
List the 7 symptoms of a diabetic (type 1)
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For both type 1 and type 2 - what’s the thing with:
- Other names
- Defect
- Age of onset
- Bodily physique
- Prevalence (whole pop)
- Cause
- Treatment
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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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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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5 long term complications of high BG (basically like what you did in flashcard #3)
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Insulin
- What is it? (two words)
- Synethesised in what?
- secreted in response to?
- Acts on what three things?
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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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How do we tell how well insulin is working?
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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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What’s the treatment for type 1 diabetes?
Type 2?
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