The nurse counsels the 30-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes who is overweight and noncompliant that control of diabetes would most improve if she were to:
a. lose weight.
b. take more Glucophage.
c. eat a high-protein diet.
d. take insulin.
A
Type 2 diabetes is prevalent in the obese. Of the known cases, 80% of them are overweight. Loss of weight decreases hyperglycemia.
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