T2DM Flashcards
What is the definition if Diabetis?
A state of chronic hyperglycamia suficcient to cause micorvascular and macrovascular complications
What does ketones in blood/urine show in T1/T2DM?
Normally present in T1DM, not in T2DM, but can be present in T2DM
What are the associated conditions of someone with T2DM?
•T2DM often involves weight, lipids and blood pressure
What are the diagnostic measurement of blood glucose for Diabetis and imparied glucose tolerance/impaired fasting glucose?
- Fasting
- 2h after meal
- Random time
Diabetis?
- Fasting glucose > 7mmol
- 2h after meal > 11.1 mmol
- At any time > 11.1 mmol
Impaired tolerance
- Fasting glucose > 6mmol
- 2h after meal > 7.6mmol
Explain the epidemiology of T2DM
- Diabetes is prevalent (10% at 60yr) Mostly T2DM
- Age is a risk factor but also caused by
- Prevalence of T2DM varies enormously
- Increasing prevalence
- Occurring and being diagnosed younger
- Greatest in ethnic groups that move from rural to urban lifestyle
What is the main characterisitic of T2DM?
It is a combination of insulin resistance and a relative insulin production (enough to swith down ketone production, not to reduce hepatic glucose output)
What is MODY?
Matuity onset of diabetis in the yound
–> ineffective ß-cell insulin production
–> single gene defect causing diabetis (Family history but no diabetis)
What is the role of genetic in T2DM?
- There is a genetic component, different in everyone
- Some might require very little outside influence to develop T2DM, some mith require more environmental influence
- Is made worse by obesity and some particular fatty acids
What is IUGR? What is its influence in T2DM?
Intra-uterine-growth restriction –>(lack of calories in utero) might modulate gene expression for rest of life and make people more predisponed to diabetis
(due to protein restrictions that are required in pancreatic development)
When does the insulin resistance in people with T2DM develop?
Normally already early, but only late detected
–> already causes dyslipidaemia and macorvascular complications early on
When does someone in T2DM required insulin?
When the ß-cells can’t keep up with the demand–> ß-cell failure
- leading to
- worseining of dyslipidaemia –> macrovascular complications
- hyperglycaemia –> microvascular complications
What happens naturally to insulin resistance and insulin secretion when you age?
- Insulin Resistance increases
- Insulin production decreases
How does T2DM present?
- Very different in everyone
- obesity
- hyperglycaemia
- dyslipidaemia
- present with aculte and chronic complications of diabetis
- might present with osmotic symptoms
- or infections –> high sugar attracts bacteria
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Explain the origin of dyslipidaemia in diabetis
Becaue of insulin resistance –> Fat cells break down Triglycerides (normally downregulated by insulin)
The NEFAs are turned into Small Dende VLDL –> dislipidaemia
Why does fasting glucose levels increase in someone with T2DM?
Because Hepatic glucose output is not supressed by insulin, due to insulin resistance