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The patient is a 78 year old woman who only had 20% kidney function. She also has diabetes and is prescribed insulin to help her blood sugar. Insulin is canceled out by the kidney action.
What type of dosage adjustment would you expect for this patient?
What problems would occur if the dosages are not adjusted?

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Insulin is a hormone. It regulates how much sugar is in your blood. An elevated level of sugar in blood can induce issues in various parts of your body, which includes heart, kidney, eyes, and brain. also leads to kidney disease and kidney failure.

What happens when insulin is inhibited?

Usually insulin provides the storage of glucose as glycogen in the liver. With a lack of insulin, there is both risen liver glucose level through raised glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis also decline glucose use. The result is hyperglycemia.

Thus no dosage adjustment would be required upto 50%.

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