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What is the current prevalence of preDM & DM in the US? - Correct answer
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✔"50% of people have preDM or DM |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




- 11%/37M c DM
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- - 23% don't know it
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- 38% c preDM
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- 35% by 2050
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- mostly non-white, uneducated, poor ppl"
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What is the current prevalence of preDM in youth in the US? - Correct answer ✔"-
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23% black & hispanic
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- 16% white
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- 13% girls
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- 23% boys"
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What intervention is most likely to decrease DM in the US? - Correct answer
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✔Community health programs that address social inequities & improve access to |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




care



What are the SDOH? - Correct answer ✔"- healthcare access & quality
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- neighborhood & built environment
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,- social & community context
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- economic stability
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- education access & quality"
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What goes into our health? - Correct answer ✔"- 40% socioeconomic factors
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- 10% physical environment
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- 30% health behaviors
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- 20% healthcare"
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What is the total cost of DM? - Correct answer ✔"- $413B, 43% to hospital inpt
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care
- 32% of Medicare dollars
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- PWD have 2-4x greater medical expenditures"
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What does pancreatic insulin do? - Correct answer ✔"- beta cells
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- anabolic, stores glucose as glycogen in muscle & liver
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- secreted in response to elevated glucose
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- halts breakdown of glycogen in liver
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- ^PRO synthesis & fat storage
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- powerful hypoglycemic"
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What does pancreatic amlyn do? - Correct answer ✔"- beta cells
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- secreted 1:1 ratio c insulin
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,- causes satiety
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- lowers post-prandial glucagon response
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- slows gastric emptying
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- T1 makes none
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- T2 make less than normal"
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What does pancreatic glucagon do? - Correct answer ✔"- alpha cells
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- opposes insulin active in the liver
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- stimulated in response to low glucose levels
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- stimulates liver to release glycogen to glucose
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- inhibits liver glucose uptake
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- causes hypergly
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- ""party animal"" in T2D"
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How long does exercise ^insulin sensitivity? - Correct answer ✔25-48h
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What are the s/s of DM? - Correct answer ✔"- polyuria (H2O losses)
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- polydipsia (dehydration)
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- polyphasia (fuel depletion)
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- wt loss and fatigue (poor energy utilization)
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- skin and other infections (bacteria cafeteria)
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- blurry vision (osmotic changes)
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- erectile dysfunction (thick sticky blood)"
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, PreDM is defined as glucose of: - Correct answer ✔"- FBG 100-125
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- random 140-199
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- A1C 5.7-6.4
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* screen annually for DM
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* refer to DPP
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(50% working pancreas, 58% of ppl can revert back to healthy)"
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What is the diagnostic criteria for DM? - Correct answer ✔"- repeat all tests in the
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absence of clear hypergly |||||| |||||| ||||||




- if test abnormal, repeat same test on different day
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- if one test normal & one abnormal, repeat the abnormal test
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- Medicare uses FBG as criteria for DSMES reimbursement"
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T1 autoimmune co-conditions: - Correct answer ✔"- hashimoto thyroiditis
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- Graves dz
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- celiac dz
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- vitiligo
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- autoimmune hepatitis, gastritis
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- myasthenia gravis
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- pernicious anemia
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- dermatomyositis"
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