What's in a number?
It's Complicated
Body Works
Risky Business
Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs
100
A serum blood glucose level greater than _____ confirms a diagnosis of diabetes.
What is 126 mg/dL?
100

Kidney damage due to diabetes can lead to this complication.

What is kidney failure?

100
This is the organ that is responsible for secreting insulin.
What is the pancreas?
100

Name a risk factor for developing Type 1 diabetes.

What is genetic predisposition (not inherited), immunologic, environmental, or a combination of these factors?

100
The medical term for increased urination.
What is polyuria?
200

Caution! This is a condition that can lead to diabetes.

What is prediabetes?

200
This disease process is characterized by the feeling of numbness, tingling, or a burning sensation in the fingers and toes (hands and feet).
What is diabetic neuropathy?
200
This is the job of insulin (think pathophysiology).
What is to move glucose from the bloodstream (serum) and into the body's cells?
200

Name a risk factor for developing Type 2 diabetes.

What is family history (heredity), obesity, sedentary lifestyle, hypertension, history of gestational diabetes, and race?

200
The medical term for increased thirst.
What is polydipsia?
300

This measures the average serum blood glucose level over a period of approximately 3 months.

What is HbA1c or glycosolated hemoglobin?

300
Diabetes can cause damage to the large blood vessels, which can result in these 2 major complications.
What is heart attack (MI) and stroke (CVA)?
300
The liver produces and releases this to help maintain a stable blood glucose level.
What is glycogen?
300

Name an ethnic background that is at higher risk for developing diabetes.

What is African American, Hispanic American, Native American, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders?

300
The medical term for increased hunger.
What is polyphagia?
400
A random serum glucose level greater than _____ is considered diabetes.
What is 200 mg/dL?
400
Bleeding or hemorrhaging of the eyes, due to diabetes, is known as this.
What is diabetic retinopathy?
400
The body uses sugar as _____, which is why it needs to be inside of cells.
What is energy?
400

The term for diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy.

What is gestational diabetes?

400

This symptom can indicate cardiovascular complications in a diabetic.

What is chest pain, SOB?

500

The goal HbA1C for diabetics.

What is 7 or below?

500
Damage to the glomerulus is categorized at this diabetic complication.
What is diabetic nephropathy?
500
The 3 Ps of diabetes mellitus include these.
What is polyuria, polydipsia, and polyphagia?
500

Characteristics include hypertension, hypercholesteremia, and abdominal obesity.

What is metabolic syndrome?

500

One signof diabetes.

What is  the 3Ps, slow wound healing, sudden weight loss

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