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CDCES Exam 2025 – Complete Study Guide with Practice Questions and Key Concepts for Certification

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This comprehensive document provides a complete overview of the CDCES (Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist) exam content for 2025. It includes quick-reference answers, practice questions, clinical criteria, medication mechanisms, insulin conversion guidelines, DSMES program steps, motivational interviewing frameworks, and management strategies for acute and chronic diabetes complications. The document is ideal for exam preparation, offering accurate, concise, and exam-aligned material with detailed medical, nutritional, and pharmacological insights.

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CDCES 2025
What is the current prevalence of preDM & DM in the US? -
✅"50% of people have preDM or DM
- 11%/37M c DM
- - 23% don't know it
- 38% c preDM
- 35% by 2050
- mostly non-white, uneducated, poor ppl"

What is the current prevalence of preDM in youth in the US? -
✅"- 23% black & hispanic
- 16% white
- 13% girls
- 23% boys"

What intervention is most likely to decrease DM in the US? -
✅Community health programs that address social inequities & improve access to care

What are the SDOH? -
✅"- healthcare access & quality
- neighborhood & built environment
- social & community context
- economic stability
- education access & quality"

What goes into our health? -
✅"- 40% socioeconomic factors
- 10% physical environment
- 30% health behaviors
- 20% healthcare"

What is the total cost of DM? -
✅"- $413B, 43% to hospital inpt care
- 32% of Medicare dollars
- PWD have 2-4x greater medical expenditures"

What does pancreatic insulin do? -
✅"- beta cells
- anabolic, stores glucose as glycogen in muscle & liver
- secreted in response to elevated glucose
- halts breakdown of glycogen in liver
- ^PRO synthesis & fat storage
- powerful hypoglycemic"

What does pancreatic amlyn do? -
✅"- beta cells

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,- secreted 1:1 ratio c insulin
- causes satiety
- lowers post-prandial glucagon response
- slows gastric emptying
- T1 makes none
- T2 make less than normal"

What does pancreatic glucagon do? -
✅"- alpha cells
- opposes insulin active in the liver
- stimulated in response to low glucose levels
- stimulates liver to release glycogen to glucose
- inhibits liver glucose uptake
- causes hypergly
- ""party animal"" in T2D"

How long does exercise ^insulin sensitivity? -
✅25-48h

What are the s/s of DM? -
✅"- polyuria (H2O losses)
- polydipsia (dehydration)
- polyphasia (fuel depletion)
- wt loss and fatigue (poor energy utilization)
- skin and other infections (bacteria cafeteria)
- blurry vision (osmotic changes)
- erectile dysfunction (thick sticky blood)"

PreDM is defined as glucose of: -
✅"- FBG 100-125
- random 140-199
- A1C 5.7-6.4
* screen annually for DM
* refer to DPP

(50% working pancreas, 58% of ppl can revert back to healthy)"

What is the diagnostic criteria for DM? -
✅"- repeat all tests in the absence of clear hypergly
- if test abnormal, repeat same test on different day
- if one test normal & one abnormal, repeat the abnormal test
- Medicare uses FBG as criteria for DSMES reimbursement"

T1 autoimmune co-conditions: -
✅"- hashimoto thyroiditis
- Graves dz
- celiac dz
- vitiligo
- autoimmune hepatitis, gastritis


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,- myasthenia gravis
- pernicious anemia
- dermatomyositis"

Why might T1D be increasing globally? -
✅"- changes in environmental exposure, ""better"" hygiene, ^childhood wt
- doubling every 20y
- autoimmune dz rising overall"

T1D considerations: -
✅"- 10% of all DM
- common between 10-14yo
- insulin sensitive
- doesn't respond to oral agents
- expression d/t combo of genes & environment (exposure to virus)"

How much insulin does a person need in a day? -
✅"- 0.5-1.0u/kg/d but individualized
- - 0.5u/kg most common
- - 0.3 if ^risk of hypo, thin, elderly, ^creat
- - 1.0 if heavy, steriods, infection
- 50% basal
- 50% bolus, divided into 3 meals, if odd number give more at lunch or dinner
- if ^risk of hypo, use basal + correction (no bolus)"

What lab markers are features of T1D? -
✅"- positive GAD (primary marker), IA2 or ZnT8 antibodies
- low C-peptide tested less often

* Misdiagnosing T1 for T2 is common, 40% of the time
* 25% of ppl c T1D also have T2/insulin resistance"

AABBCC of T1D: -
✅"- age, <35yo, 75% <18yo
- autoimmunity, personal or family hx
- body habitus, BMI <25
- background, family hx T1
- control, ^BG levels on noninsulin therapies
- comorbitiies, other autoimmune conditions or CA tx"

What are the most discriminating factors of T1D? -
✅"- <35yo
- BMI <25
- UWL
- ketoacidosis, low pH
- BG 360+

Other s/s:
- ^thirst & hunger


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, - frequent urination or bedwetting
- fatigue, irritability"

What are characteristics stage 1 T1D? -
"- normoglycemia
- presymptomatic
- multiple autoantibodies"

What are characteristics stage 2 T1D? -
"- dysglycemia (preDM range)
- presymptomatic
- multiple autoantibodies
- screen A1C every 6m
- 75g OGTT annually
- may benefit from CGM to monitor progress
- may be able to slow progress two additional yrs with Teplizumab (Tzield), monoclonal antibody"

What are characteristics stage 3 T1D? -
"- overt hyperglycemia (DM levels)
- symptomatic
- autoantibodies may disappear over time"

What nonprofit studies T1D? -
trialnet.org

What ^B-cell demand and ^the progression of T1D? -
"- less physical activity
- high glycemic foods
- excess sugar intake"

What reduces the risk of T1D progression? -
- daily vigorous physical exercise

What is latent autoimmunity DM in adults (LATA)? -
"- positive antibodies, autoimmune destruction
- adult age at onset
- usually needs insulin w/i 6m of DX, early insulin therapy may preserve beta cell funtion"

What are the clinical features of LATA? -
"- age >50yo
- acute hypergly
- BMI <25
- hx autoimmune dz
- family hx autoimmune dz"

What are the BMI categories? -
"- <20, underwt
- 20-25, healthy
- 26-29 overwt

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