Certified Diabetes Educator Exam 1 / Actual Test Questions with Detailed Verified Answers / Already Graded A/ 2025.
Goals for a self-management program are guided by - Answer: program philosophy
Qs: Acculturation - Answer: the process of cultural and psychological change that results following meeting between cultures Qs: Enculturation - Answer: the process by which a person learns the requirements of the culture by which he or she is surrounded Qs: Avoid resistive exercise - Answer: ESRD, nephropathy, Charcot's foot, proliferative retinopathy Qs: Glipizide - Answer: should be taken on an empty stomach Qs: Drugs that raise blood glucose - Answer: Clonidine, Corticosteroids, Cyclosporine, Diuretic, Estrogen, Gemfibrozil, Oral Contraceptives, Phenytoin (Dilantin), Thyroid Hormone (Synthroid) Qs: Sulfonylurea + Aspirin - Answer: lowers blood glucose Qs: Metformin + Clonidine - Answer: raises blood glucose Qs: The accuracy goal of home meters is a total error of - Answer: up to 15% 1 / 2
Qs: A blood glucose meter that measures plasma blood glucose in the laboratory would be -
Answer: higher than a whole blood glucose reading
Qs: Diabetes Control and Complication Trial (DCCT) - Type 1 - Answer: Intensive blood glucose reduces risk of eye disease by 76%, risk of kidney disease by 50%, nerve disease by 60% Qs: United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) - Type 2 - Answer: Every percentage point decrease in HgA1c, there was a 35% reduction in the risk of microvascular complications.Qs: Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) - Answer: Lifestyle changes was more effective than drug therapy - weight loss of 5-7% of their body weight and exercise reduced the development of Type 2 by 58% Qs: Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) - Type 1 - Answer: Follow- up study of DCCT - cardiovascular disease event was reduced by 42% and nonfatal heart attack, stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes was reduced by 57% with intensive blood glucose control Qs: Ketonuria in the presence of euglycemia indicates - Answer: weight loss Qs: When switching a patient from Regular short-acting insulin to Rapid insulin for the pre-meal
bolus, we usually fend we need to - Answer: increase the basal dose
Qs: When glucagon is impaired in Type 1, epinephrine will raise BG by performing 2 processes -
Answer: 1) glycogenolysis, 2) inhibit glucose utilization by insulin action
Qs: When epinephrine becomes the primary counter-regulatory hormone to raise blood glucose in Type 2 who is producing insulin, epinephrine will - Answer: 1) inhibit glucose utilization, 2) inhibit endogenous insulin release
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