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What is the metabolic abnormality that underlies the characteristic symptoms of diabetes mellitus?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Carmen asked: What is the metabolic abnormality that underlies the characteristic symptoms of diabetes mellitus?
A. A failure of the kidney tubules to reabsorb glucose from the urine
B. A failure of the villi of the intestine to absorb glucose from food
C. The body can’t switch from glucose metabolism to fat metabolism between meals.
D. The body’s cells [...]

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