U3 LEC: CARBOHYDRATES (PT. 3) Flashcards
Condition in which levels of blood glucose are decreased
Hypoglycemia
Glucagon is released if blood glucose level is?
65-70 mg/dL
Symptoms of hypoglycemia appear if blood glucose level is?
50-55 mg/dL
Symptoms of Hypoglycemia are related to?
CNS
Hypoglycemia symptoms include:
- shaking
- fast heartbeat
- shivering
- dizziness
- anxiety
- irritable
- headache
This causes brain fuel deprivation
Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia results to?
- impaired judgement and behavior
- seizures
- coma
- functional brain failure
- death
This is the imbalance in the rate of glucose appearance and disappearance from the circulation
Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia is rare in individuals with?
normal glucose metabolism
In individuals without diabetes, diagnosis of hypoglycemia should be made only in those who demonstrate the?
Whipple Triad
under the Whipple Triad
1.) Hypoglycemic symptoms
2.) Plasma glucose <50 mg/dL
3.) Symptoms are relieved by correction of hypoglycemia when glucose or glucagon is administered
T/F: The Whipple Triad is only observed in persons without diabetes.
True
Hormones that regulate Hypoglycemia
- Glucagon
- Epinephrine
- Norepinephrine
- Cortisol
- Growth Hormone
Classification of Hypoglycemia
due to fasting state
Post-absorptive (fasting)
Classification of Hypoglycemia
after eating
Postprandial (reactive)
Postprandial is observed how many hours after a meal?
4 hours
Level 1 (Glucose Alert Value)
- <70mg/dL
- sufficiently low for treatment with fast acting carbohydrate and dose adjustment of glucose lowering therapy
Level 2 (Clinically significant hypoglycemia)
- <54mg/dL
- sufficiently low to indicate serious hypoglycemia
Level 3 (Severe hypoglycemia)
- no significant threshold
- associated with severe cognitive impairment requiring external assistance for recovery
Symptom observed in Level 3
loss of consciousness
Characterized by a plasma (or serum) glucose concentration low enough to cause symptoms and/or signs including impairment of brain function
Clinical hypoglycemia
An intentional attempt to induce low blood glucose levels
Factitious hypoglycemia
Results from exogenous self-administration of insulin or insulin secretagogues medications
Factitious hypoglycemia
Factitious hypoglycemia is more common in?
women with diabetes, during third and fourth decades of life
Plasma Glucose Values
Glucagon and other glycemic hormones are released into the circulation
65-70 mg/dL
Plasma Glucose Values
Observable symptoms of hypoglycemia appear
50-55 mg/dL
Plasma Glucose Values
Considered low value and abnormal for infants (requires further diagnostic test)
< 50 mg/dL
Plasma Glucose Values
Impairment of cerebral function starts
<50 mg/dL
Result of the deficiency of a specific enzyme that causes an alteration of glycogen metabolism
Glycogen Storage Diseases
Increase in glycogen stored in the liver will result to?
Hepatomegaly
Type I Glycogen Storage Disease, most common
Von Gierke
Von Gierke
Defective enzyme
Glucose-6-phosphatase
Von Gierke
Organ affected
Liver and Kidney
Von Gierke
Genetic pattern
autosomall recessive
Von Gierke
Diagnosis
Liver Biopsy using Glycogen stain
Von Gierke
Clinical features
- Severe hypoglycemia
- Ketosis
- Hyperuricemia
- Hyperlipemia
- Elevated lactate levels
Von Gierke
Treatment
Liver transplantation (Liver cells)
Type II Glycogen Storage Disease, affects all organs
Pompe
Pompe
Defective enzyme
a-1,4-Glucosidase
Other enzyme defects causing hypoglycemia
- Glycogen synthase deficiency
- Fructose 1,6-biphosphate deficiency
- Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase deficiency
- Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency
- Glycogen debrancher enzyme deficiency
This enzyme deficiency causes hepatomegaly but no hypoglycemia due to gluconeogenesis.
Glycogen debrancher enzyme deficiency
Cause of failure to thrive syndrome in infants
Galactosemia
Congenital deficiency of one of three enzymes involved in galactose metabolism leading to?
increased galactose in plasma
Galactosemia
Defective enzyme
Galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (G1PU)
Galactosemia inhibits?
Glycogenolysis
Galactosemia
Symptoms
- hypoglycemia
- hyperbilirubinemia
- mental retardation and cataracts
Galactosemia
Treatment
remove galactose from diet
Fructosuria is also known as?
Fructose-1-phosphate aldolase deficiency (Fructosuria)
Fructosuria
Defective enzyme
Fructose-1-phosphatase aldolase
Fructosuria
can also be a deficiency due to?
Fructose-1,6-diphosphatase
Fructosuria
Symptoms
- nausea
- hypoglycemia
- fructose in urine
Fructosuria
Treatment
removal of fructose in diet
Other causes of Hypoglycemia
- Errors in amino acid metabolism
- Long chain fatty acid oxidation
- Alimentary hypoglycemia
- Idiopathic hypoglycemia
Specimen for glucose
- blood (serum/plasma)
- urine
- CSF
Specimen for Glycated /Gycosylated Hemoglobin
Whole blood
Specimen for Insulin testing
Blood (serum/plasma)
Diagnostic test for screening DM suspects
Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS)
FBS
requires how many hours of fasting?
8 hours
FBS
fasting hours should not exceed?
16 hours
FBS
Abnormal indicative value
> 126 mg/dL
FBS
Percentage of Whole Blood Glucose
11%
T/F: Fasting of FBS is not followed if patient’s request include lipid profile analysis.
True
Glucose is increased and decreased in?
increased: morning
decreased: afternoon
Collection of FBS in the afternoon, after fasting in the morning will result to?
false decrease
This refers to simple glucose loading to check insulin secretion
Two hour post prandial (2hr PPBS)