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Your Mother Has Been Recently Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

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Your mother has been recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. She is now afraid to eat anything with sugar in it. What advice would you give her to help her understand her condition?


Definitions:

Glomerular Filtration

The process in the kidneys where fluid and small molecules are filtered from the blood to form urine.

Diabetes Insipidus

A rare disorder characterized by intense thirst and the excretion of large amounts of urine, caused by a deficiency of the antidiuretic hormone or the kidney's response to it.

Specific Gravity

A measure of the density of a substance compared to the density of water.

Urinalysis

A laboratory test used to examine the content of urine for signs of medical conditions or diseases.

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