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Clinical Nutrition Final NYCC Carnevale Exam Questions and Answers Metabolic Syndrome is also known as what? Notes: •It is multiple conditions occurring together that *increase heart disease* •Increased risk for Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease - ANSWER-Syndrome X If you have 3 ...

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Clinical Nutrition Final NYCC Carnevale

Exam Questions and Answers


Metabolic Syndrome is also known as what?




Notes:


•It is multiple conditions occurring together that *increase heart disease*


•Increased risk for Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease - ANSWER✔✔-Syndrome X


If you have 3 of the following what condition do you have (according to the 2001 National Cholesterol

Education Program)




1. Elevated waist circumference - >35 inches for women and >40 inches for men




2. Elevated Triglycerides - >150mg/dL




3. Reduced HDL - <40mg/dL in men, <50mg/dL in women




4. Elevated BP / 130/85 mm/Hg


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5. Elevated fasting blood sugar - >110mg/dL - ANSWER✔✔-Metabolic Syndrome


When measuring waist circumference locate top of the right iliac crest and measure horizontally around

the waist parallel to the floor




When should the measurement be taken with regard to patient instructions? - ANSWER✔✔-At the end

of normal expiration


A waist to height ratio equal to or greater than what increases a patient's risk for coronary artery

disease? - ANSWER✔✔-0.55


Approximately 1,000 mg of cholesterol is made each day in the liver and excreted in the bile




What enzyme is required to do this? - ANSWER✔✔-7-Alpha-Hydrolase


-requires vitamin C


L-Homocysteine levels should be reduced in an approach to help with heart health.




*What does homocystiene do?*




Notes:


•B12, folic acid, Mg and B6 recycle L-homocysteine to methionine so increase these


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•Decreasing stress also helps because norepinephrine's conversion to epinephrine requires SAMe to

donate a methyl which them becomes L-homocysteine - ANSWER✔✔-Damages Cells Lining Arteries


In looking to reduce plaque formation one can:




•Increase HDLs


•Exercise




And supplement with what? - ANSWER✔✔-*Lecithin*


-for formation of lecithin-cholesterol acyl-transferase (LCAT)


-Food sources: egg yolks, liver, peanuts, whole grains, wheat germ, milk and soybeans


What food can be used to decrease oxidized LDL levels?




Notes:


•also use beta-carotene (not vit A), vitamin C, vitamin E, CoQ10 - ANSWER✔✔-Garlic


Dietary supplementation should be made before supplements are incorporated into one's routine.




What exception(s) to this rule exists? - ANSWER✔✔-*Calcium and Vitamin D*


-especially in women at risk for future osteoporosis


The DASH diet should be used to treat what? - ANSWER✔✔-Hypertension

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