Diabetes Mellitus – MCQ

1. Women with diabetes who are planning to become pregnant should aim for fasting blood glucose level of ___mmol/L

2. Women with diabetes who are planning to become pregnant should aim for plasma glucose level before meals of ____ mmol/L

3. Pregnant women with any form of diabetes should maintain their fasting capillary plasma glucose below ___mmol/L

4. Pregnant women with any form of diabetes should maintain their capillary plasma glucose levels, 1hour after meals to ____mmol/L

5. Pregnant women with any form of diabetes should maintain their capillary plasma glucose levels, 2 hrs after meals to ___mmol/L

6. Women with diabetes who are planning to become pregnant should be advised to take preconceptional Folic acid in a dose of

7. Advise women who are planning to become pregnant to aim to keep their HbA1C level below

8. Unless they have had an annual retinal assessment in the last 3 months, offer retinal assessment to women with diabetes

9. Offer women who had GDM in a previous pregnancy a 75gm OGTT

10. Women with GDM who have a fasting plasma glucose level below 7mmolL should be advised

11. Offer immediate treatment with insulin, with or without metformin, as well as changes in diet & exercise, to women with GDM who have a fasting plasma glucose level of ___mmol/l or above at diagnosis.

12. For women with diabetes referral to a nephrologist should be considered if

13. Consider thromboprophylaxis for women with nephrotic range proteinuria above

14. From 28 to 36 weeks, pregnant women with diabetes should be offered usg for fetal growth every

15. Advise women with uncomplicated diabetes to give birth no later than

16. During labour & birth, in women with diabetes maintain plasma glucose level between

17. After birth, women with insulin treated pre-existing diabetes should

18. For women with gestational diabetes whose blood glucose levels return to normal after birth, fasting plasma glucose should be offered at how many weeks after birth to exclude diabetes?

19. The Joint British Diabetes Inpatient Care Group guidelines state the diagnostic criteria for DKP

20. In women with DKP, metabolic targets to be achieved using IV insulin therapy include