The nurse counseling a patient about the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes stresses that patients with type 2 diabetes are required on a daily basis to receive:
a. regular carbohydrate-controlled meals.
b. oral hyperglycemic agents.
c. insulin injections.
d. stringent low-calorie diets.
A
People with type 2 diabetes must take daily regulated meals with controlled carbohydrate content. Type 1 diabetics must have insulin injections.
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