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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 ?
The percentage of time a person with diabetes keeps their blood sugars within a healthy range.
What is Time in Range (TIR)?
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.
What is Urine Albumin/Cr ratio?
The two ratios that are usually programmed into an insulin pump to assist with bolus calculations.
What is ISF and I:C?
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)?
First-line therapy for HTN in people with diabetes and albuminuria or CAD
What is ACE inhibitors or ARBs?
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)?
This "framework" is used to provide age-friendly care that addresses specific issues related to diabetes management in older adults.
What is the 4Ms (What Matters, Medications, Mentation, and Mobility)