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This wearable device measures glucose in interstitial fluid and can provide real-time glucose trends.
What is Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)?
Side effects include: hypotension, dizziness, and dehydration.
What are sodium glucose coTransporter-2 (SGLT-2)?
Leading cause of blindess
What is Diabetic Retinopathy?
Husbands are returning to their bedrooms to sleep now that Tirzepatide has been FDA-approved to treat ______.
What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)?
The 2-hour postprandial blood sugar goal is _____.
What is less than 180 ?
This ratio explains how many grams of carbohydrates a single unit of rapid-acting insulin will cover.
What is Insulin to Carb Ratio ?
Delays absorption of carbohydrates thus lowering postprandial blood glucose
What is Alpha-Glucosidase inhibitors?
Evidence of Proliferative Retinopathy, Peripheral Neuropathy, and stage 3b Chronic Kidney Disease
What are microvascular complications?
Metabolic surgery should be considered with a BMI of ____ in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
What is BMI > 40?
Recommended duration of exercise for adults with Type 2 diabetes.
What is 150 minutes per week?
This technology combines CGM readings with an insulin pump to automatically adjust insulin delivery based on glucose levels.
What is Automated Insulin Delivery (AID) system?
Indicated for patients taking greater than 200 units of insulin per day.
What is Humulin R U-500 ?
Like a lovely married couple, these two organs stick together in sickness and in health until death do them part and are known as ______________.
What is Cardiorenal Syndrome?
A non-invasive scoring system based on several laboratory tests to assess liver scarring.
What is FIB-4 score?
This diagnostic test should be checked yearly to evaluate kidney function.
What is Microalbumin Creatinine ratio?
The percentage of time that a person with diabetes spends within their target blood glucose range.
What is Time in Range?
Only effective with residual pancreatic beta cell function.
What is sulfonyureas?
Blood glucose less than 70 mg/dl that no longer causes adrenergic symptoms
What is hypoglycemia unawareness?
Adults with diabetes are 2-4 times more likely to die from this condition.
What is Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)?
Screening for Type 2 diabetes should begin at age ____ for ALL people, irrespective of whether they have risk factors or not.
What is 35?
If you like to be tied down, you do you, but this pump certainly won’t tether you to anything.
What is Omnipod 5?
The days of mixing a liquid and powder together to treat severe hypoglycemia are long gone thanks to this premixed pen.
What is GVOKE HypoPen?
A three-component composite of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, and non-fatal stroke.
What is major adverse cardiac events (MACE)?
Rezdiffra was the first drug ever approved to treat this condition.
What is MASH (Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis)?
An age-friendly framework that is being adopted by many health systems to provide individualized care to older adults with chronic conditions, such as diabetes.
What is the 4Ms (Matter, Mentation, Medication, Mobility) ?