Type 2 Diabetes Flashcards
What is type 2 diabetes?
Metabolic syndrome, characterized by hyperglycemia resulting in insulin resistance. Relative insulin insufficiency.
What other effects can chronic diabetes have?
Damage nerves, eyes, blood vessels, heart, and kidneys.
How does type 2 diabetes occur? (6)
- Increase glucose and not enough insulin, so glucose increases more. (Also, inulin may not respond well due to genetics)
- Body produces more insulin to make up for this.
- Beta cells over stimulated to produce inclusion reducing activity and therefore reducing insulin production.
- When insulin accumulates, it also increases amylin.
- This amylin, causes amyloid deposition, this damages the beta cells. therefore, reducing insulin production.
- So increased blood glucose
Beta cell hyperplasia
Increase in beta cells
Beta cell hypertrophy
Increase beta cell size
Why does DKA not happen in type 2?
As there is still some insulin in the blood.
HHS
Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state
Treatment for type 2 diabetes
- Lifestyle
- Oral antidiabetic meds
- Sometimes insulin
Drugs that can cause diabetes
Steroids and thiazides
Diabetes risk factors
- Obesity
- Age
- Family History
- Gestational diabetes
- PCOS
- Ethnicity
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Dyslipidaemia (high TC and low HDL)
- Hypertension
- Dietary factors
- Sedentary lifestyledssd
Presenting feature of type 2 diabetes
- Not usually weight loss
- No ketonuria
- Onset over months
- Usually insidious
- After age 20 (more children now though)
Diagnosis for Type 2?
- HbA1c
- Fasting plasma glucose
- OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test)
Fasting plasma glucose: < 5.6mmol/L
No diabetes
Fasting plasma glucose: 6.1-6.9 mmol/L
Pre-diabetes
Fasting plasma glucose: >7 mmol/L
Diabetes
HbA1c: < 42mmol/mol (6%)
No diabetes
HbA1c: 42-47 mmol/mol (6-6.4%)
Pre-diabetes
HbA1c: > 48 mmol/mol (6.5%)
Diabetes
2 hour post prandial: < 7.8 mmol/L
No diabetes
2 hour post prandial: 7.8-11 mmol/L
Pre-diabetes