The loose control approach to managing a patient's diabetes can be characterized by
the following: - ANSWER freedom to eat whatever they choose and a single dose of
insulin per day
A complete lack of vitamin A in a person's diet can lead to: - ANSWER Blindness
Amputation
Deafness
The loose control approach to managing a patient's diabetes can be characterized by
the following: - ANSWER freedom to eat whatever they choose and a single dose of
insulin per day
A complete lack of vitamin A in a person's diet can lead to: - ANSWER Blindness
Amputation
Deafness
, Patients enrolled in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial were randomly
assigned to be part of the tight control group or the standard group. - ANSWER True
One conclusion from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial was that
tight control: - ANSWER Minimized long term complications
Beta carotene is a precursor to Vitamin A. The CARET trial showed that heavy smokers
who took a daily 30 mg beta carotene supplement had: - ANSWER The same rate of
lung cancer compared to the control group
From the 1920s through the 1960s, insulin used by patients with diabetes came from
which sources: - ANSWER pigs and cows.
In 1976, a US city held hearings on the safety of recombinant DNA in research. This city
was home to which university: - ANSWER Harvard
When recombinant DNA technology was developed in the 1970's, a group of prominent
scientists proposed a national ban on it, until: - ANSWER The risks were better
understood
An insulin molecule in circulating in your bloodstream consists of: - ANSWER two
chains of amino acids linked together by disulfide bonds
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