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Pharmacology: Antidiabetics
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Pharmacology: Antidiabetics
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1. Which of the following is a neuroglucopenic symptom of hypoglycaemia ?
2. Select the drug which tends to reverse insulin resistance by increasing cellular glucose transporters.
3. Excessive use of tolbutamide will lead to
4. The treatment of gestational diabetes would comprise of
5. Insulin
6. The sulfonylurea with a relatively longer duration of action is
7. The insulin receptor is a
8. The second generation sulfonylurea hypoglycaemics differ from the first generation one in that they
9. Sulfonylureas are a primary mode of therapy in the treatment of
10. Preferred route of insulin is
11. The antidiabetic agent most likely to cause lactic acidosis is
12. Human insulins are obtained by the following sources/methods except
13. Aldosterone enhances Na+ reabsorption in renal tubules by
14. Sulfonylureas do not lower blood sugar level in
15. The hypoglycaemic action of sulfonylureas is likely to be attenuated by the concurrent use of
16. The present status of oral hypoglycaemics in diabetes mellitus is
17. Diuretic effective in diabetes insipidus is
18. A diabetic on oral hypoglycaemic drug chlorpropamide, suffered from enteric fever and was prescribed chloramphenicol. He developed severe hypoglycaemia. This is because
19. The standard recommended dose of glyburide is
20. Metformin
21. Which of the following may increase the insulin need of diabetics?
22. Metformin is preferred over phenformin because
23. The most common adverse reaction to insulin is
24. Current criteria used in the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (DM) include all of the following symptoms except
25. Which of the following statements concerning insulin replacement therapy is most accurate?