Nephrology: practice question

The best answer is C, Diabetes mellitus. Longstanding diabetes can damage glomerular microvasculature and is a major cause of chronic kidney disease, especially when glucose and blood pressure are poorly controlled.

Migraine is a neurologic headache disorder.

Myopia is a refractive eye condition.

Otitis externa affects the ear canal.

It tests Nephrology in General Medicine. The correct option holds because: Correct: diabetic nephropathy is a common chronic kidney disease cause.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

For each disease know the classic presentation, the best test, and the first-line treatment. Then use the flashcards and the other General Medicine questions on this site to test what stuck.

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