Insulin secretion in the body follows and inverted U pattern, during the natural history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, which is termed the ‘Starling’s curve of the pancreas’.
Normal blood glucose: Fasting 70-100 mg dl; Following glucose load: <140 mg/dl Pre-diabetes Hyperglycemia not sufficient to meet the diagnostic criteria of diabetes mellitus Impaired fasting glucose (IFG)
Sepsis is a generalised inflammatory response to infection. Systemic inflammatroy response syndrome (SIRS) can occur in many conditions other than sepsis as well. Low tidal volume ventilation is
It is a heterogenous group of conditions with cytopenias, hypercellular / dysplastic marrow and is a premalignant condition. Dyserythropoesis manifest as ring sideroblasts. In MDS, there is decreased
Antimicrosomal antibodies (antithyroid peroxidase antibodies) (AMA/TPO): Closely correlates with thyroid damage and lymphocyte inflammation. Anti thyroglobulin antibodies (ATG): less frequent than Anti-TPO and their role is less clear.
Incretins are a group of gastrointestinal hormones that cause an increase in the amount of insulin released from the beta cells after eating, even before blood glucose levels
Swine Influenza A outbreak has started in March, 2009 in Mexico. The number of suspected cases has increased to about 2000 while the death toll is increasing. Confirmed
Vesicular breath sounds refers to the breath sounds heard over the various lung areas. The term ‘vesicular breath sounds’ was coined by Lennac. It was named so due
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