Ten Questions about Diabetes Mellitus

Question 6. Which of the following best refl ects the association between blood glucose level and mortality in people with type 2 diabetes? There is a positive, although weak, association between increased glucose and increased mortality There is a positive, and very strong, association between increased glucose and increased mortality There is no association between glucose level and mortality Question 7. For people with healed diabetic foot ulcers, what is the 5-year cumulative rate of ulcer recurrence? 15% 30% 45% 66%

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