HSCI 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gestational Diabetes, Glycated Hemoglobin, Preterm Birth
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Clinical picture: short-term, polydipsia, excessive thirst, polyuria, excessive urination, polyphagia, increased diet, high blood and urine glucose levels, long term, macrovascular i. (atherosclerosis, microvascular i. ii. iii. Peripheral blood vessels, (impaired sensation, ulcers, gangrene: additional information to slide diagnostic criteria you should take the fasting blood glucose more than once, fasting blood glucose, greater than 70mmol/l or 2hr post load glucose 11. 1mmol/l (oral glucose) There is insulin deficiency: treatment: targets, (number doesn"t need to be memorized) hemoglobin a1c (hba1c) i. ii. 7: treatment: behavioural (comes before pharmacological treatment, self-management education-eye exams, foot care, diet, glucose monitoring, treatment: pharmarcological, type 1: short and long acting insulin, usually self-administered, type 2: oral hypoglycemic agents act on either your first choidem. Gestational diabetes: prediabetes, fbg (fast blood glucose, bonus to geographic variation in canada, founder effect predisposition to diabetes. Incidence rates of diabetes by age: just shows that the older you get, diabetes goes up.
