Diabetes mellitus

High-yield diabetes mellitus topics for USMLE Step 2 CK, within Endocrine. Below are the 15 topics this area covers, plus a worked example showing the trap-aware approach 280Bound uses.

Topics in Diabetes mellitus

  • Arginine vasopressin deficiency and resistance (diabetes insipidus)
  • Diabetic eye complications
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS)
  • Diabetic kidney disease
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Gestational diabetes mellitus
  • Infant of a diabetic mother
  • Insulin therapy in diabetes mellitus management
  • Macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes
  • Nonclassical diabetes mellitus subtypes: Monogenic diabetes (maturity-onset diabetes of the young) and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults
  • Noninsulin antihyperglycemic drugs in type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors
  • Type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in pregnancy
  • Type 1 diabetes mellitus: An overview
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus: an overview

More in Endocrine

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