KROK 1 2008 – Question 59 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
Examination of a 70 year old patient revealed insulin-dependent diabetes. What drug should be administered?
- A. Cortisone
- B. Insulin
- C. Parathyroidin
- D. Glibenclamid
- E. Mercazolilum
Hint
Look at the listed drugs by their main effect: only some of them act on carbohydrate metabolism at all. Then think about which type of diabetes is typical at age 70 and how each antidiabetic drug would work in it.
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