KROK 1 2017 – Question 86 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A 40-year-old woman with Cushing’s disease presents with steroid diabetes. On biochemical examination she has hyperglycemia and hypochloremia. What process activates in the first place in such patients?
- A. Glycogenolysis
- B. Glucose transportation into a cell
- C. Glucose reabsorption
- D. Glycolysis
- E. Gluconeogenesis
Hint
Ask how excess cortisol shifts the body's glucose balance: it opposes insulin, so consider which pathway of glucose production or utilization it would switch on first.
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