Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia
Goal LDL in patients with diabetes
What is < 70 mg/dL?
Origin of this medication is from the venom of a Gila Monster
What is exenatide (other GLP-1 agonists are acceptable)?
What is osteomyelitis?
What are SGLT-2 inhibitors?
One of the criteria that can be used to diagnose diabetes
Hemoglobin A1c of 6.5% or greater, fasting plasma glucose of 126 mg/dL or greater, 2-hour plasma glucose of 200 mg/dL or greater, random plasma glucose of 200 mg/dL or greater
First line medication for treatment of hypertension in the setting of diabetes
What are Ace-Inhibitors (ARB also acceptable)?
Origin of this medication is from French lilac
What are biguanides (metformin)?
Diabetic patients should be screened with this lab at least annually to determine if patient is progressing into chronic kidney disease
What is urine microalbumin?
Contraindicated in patients with GFR < 30 due to risk of lactic acidosis
What is metformin?
Antibody that can be measured to screen patients with a family history of Type 1 DM to earlier detect the disease prior to DKA presentation (name one)
What are GAD65 (glutamic acid decarboxylase 65), insulinoma-associated protein 2 (IA2), insulin, and ZnT8 (zinc transporter 8)?
First-line treatment cholesterol-lowering medication class for patients with diabetes
What are HMG COA Reductase Inhibitors (statins)?
Diabetes medication that was discovered in 1921 by Frederick Banting and Charles Best at the University of Toronto
What is insulin?
Leading cause of blindness in the US in patients aged 20-74 years
What is diabetic retinopathy?
Associated with increased risk for limb amputation
What is Invokana (canagliflozin)?
This laboratory finding is typically low in Type 1 DM but normal-to-elevated in Type 2 DM
What is C-peptide?
Most efficacious medication class that lowers triglyceride level
in 1942, French physician Marcel Janbon observed hypoglycemia when using an antibiotic to treat typhoid fever, which led to discovery of this diabetes medication class
What are sulfonylureas?
This medication class masks hypoglycemic episodes
Reduces risk of hospitalization from heart failure.
What are SGLT-2 inhibitors?
Medications that can cause diabetes insipidus (multiple correct answers)
What is:
Lithium, cidofovir/foscarnet, amphoterocin B, demeclocycline, ifosfamide, ofloxacin, orlistat, didanosine?
Goal blood pressure in patients with diabetes
What is < 130/80?
Siphon (Greek origin) inspired the naming of diabetes by describing this symptom
What is excessive urination?
Screening for this complication should begin at the time of diagnosis of DM2; should begin 5 years after diagnosis with DM1 or at 10 years of age, whichever occurs first
What is diabetic retinopathy?
What are GLP-1 agonists?