HTH 100 EXAM 4 - CHRIS SMITH UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

HTH 100 EXAM 4 - CHRIS SMITH UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. How many adults are affected by diabetes?
Answer:
4.9 mil ages 18-44, 14.8 mil ages 45-64, and 14.3 mil ages 65+

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2. how is diabetes characterized?
Answer:
persistently high level of sugar (glucose) in the blood.

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3. hyperglycemia
Answer:
high blood glucose levels seen in diabetes

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4. Glucose in a "healthy person"
Answer:
taken up efficiently by body cells

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5. what does the pancreas regulate?
Answer:
insuliin hormone

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6. what does insulin do?
Answer:
stimulates cells to take up glucose from the blood stream and use for energy

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7. type 1 diabetes
Answer:
immune disorder, starts as children

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8. type 2 diabetes
Answer:
metabolic disorder, adult onset

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9. what diabetes is 90-95% of cases?

,Answer:
type 2

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10. what diabetes is insulin resistant?
Answer:
type 2

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11. which diabetes is non curable aka you have it forever
Answer:
type 1

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12. risk factors of diabetes
Answer:
- age
-genes or biology

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13. modifiable risk factors
Answer:
-weight, stress, bmi
-diet, physical activity, sleep

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14. Prediabetes
Answer:
a condition in which the blood sugar level is higher than normal, but not high enough to be classified as
type 2 diabetes

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15. what diabetes does prediabetes apply to?
Answer:
type 2

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16. how many does prediabetes affect?
Answer:
37% and about 25% will become type 2

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17. liver stores glucose as...
Answer:
glycogen

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18. gestational diabetes
Answer:
diabetes during pregnancy, can lead to type 2

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19. what percent of pregnancy are gestational diabetes
Answer:
18%

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20. symptoms (usually type 1)
Answer:
-thirst, excess peeing, increased hunger, weight loss, fatigue
- down the road: nerve damage, poor wound healing and infection

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21. diabete complications
Answer:
- diabetic coma, cardiovascular, kidney disease, teeth and gum disease
-infections (can lead to amputation)
-infectious disease

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22. diagnosing diabetes
Answer:
fasting blood glucose, oral glucose tolerance test, hemoglobin ALC test

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23. type 1 blood glucose ranges
Answer:
- 80-150 mg/dl (4.44 to 7.2 mmol/l)
- post meal, no higher than 180 mg/dl
-athletes tend to "run high" on blood glucose ranges

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24. preventing and treating
Answer:
-usually bmi & diet
-increased fitness - 30 mins 5x a week

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25. medications
Answer:
-ozempic (used for weightloss purposes)
-weightloss surgery, gastric bypass (high death rate)