A 75-Year-Old Patient Is Newly Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

question 24

Multiple Choice

A 75-year-old patient is newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus and asks why it developed late in life. What is the nurse's best response?

• A) "This disease is inevitable since everyone over 70 years will develop diabetes."
• B) "The pancreas becomes hardened and unable to produce insulin with aging."
• C) "The body loses the ability to digest carbohydrates as a normal part of aging."
• D) "The body gradually reduces the production of insulin as a normal part of aging."

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Definitions:

Fractured

Refers to a break, rupture, or crack in a bone, often caused by injury, stress, or disease.

Pelvis

Any basin-shaped structure; cup-shaped ring of bone at the lower end of the trunk, formed from the ossa coxal bones, sacrum, and coccyx.

Greater Sciatic Notch

A notable depression in the ilium bone of the pelvis through which the sciatic nerve passes, significant for leg movement and sensation.

Ischium

Superior bone of the coxal bone.