All right, so this this podcast we're going to be doing focusing on endocrine and I'm

going to be focusing on diabetes, the meds, the diseases, and certain things that I think you

need to know for your boards, your EORs, and for your exams in school. Again, I'm focusing on the important things. I think you

need to know the high yield and going off the NCCPA blueprint. So let's start with type

one diabetes. You need to know that this is a beta cell destruction pancrease is no longer

making insulin and it's going to be most common in children and young adults

normally under 30 years of old 30 years of age doesn't always have to be though

as far as etiologies there's a couple of different types

there's type 1 a this is by far your most common this is going to be auto-immune

you're going to see positive gad antibodies Ilet cell antibodies but again this is the one you need to focus on because this is the most common.

There's also type 1B, non-automune, idiopathic, stronger hereditary component, but not very common and I would not focus on that one.

Type 1A is your most common.

Patient is going to be presenting almost always

with polyurea, polydipsia, polyphagia.

The patient is going to have this excessive hunger

and eating because they have all this glucose in the body but

none of it is getting into the cell so the body thinks it's pretty much starving so

they're going to be eating a lot they're going to be peeing a lot they're going to be

drinking a lot they're going to be dehydrated they may even present with D. K.

As far as diagnosing you need one of these to

diagnose diabetes and this is the same with type 1 or type 2. So you need either a fasting plasma

glucose of 126 or higher on two separate occasions. You can also have a two-hour

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