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A patient with type II diabetes has a BMI of 32. What is a characteristic of this metabolic disease?
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Correct answer: C. Chronic association with adults with obesity
- A. Autoimmune beta-cell destruction describes type 1 diabetes, not type 2.
- B. Autoimmunity is the mechanism of type 1, not type 2 diabetes.
- C. Correct. Type 2 diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance strongly associated with adult obesity (this patient's BMI of 32 is in the obese range).
- D. Childhood onset is typical of type 1; type 2 traditionally presents in adults (though rising in obese youth).
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