The nursing instructor is teaching the senior nursing class Addison's disease. What symptom would the instructor teach the student's is characteristic of Addison's disease?
A) Truncal obesity
B) Hypertension
C) Muscle weakness
D) "Moon" face
Ans: C
Feedback: Patients with Addison's disease demonstrate muscular weakness, anorexia, gastrointestinal symptoms, fatigue, emaciation, dark pigmentation of the skin, and hypotension. Patients with Cushing's syndrome demonstrate truncal obesity, "moon" face, acne, abdominal striae, and hypertension.
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