Hello tutor. Please answer the following questions. The strategy of marketing taken by VW India was aimed at enhancing their brand awareness

by creating increased exposure in relative new market share among the working

professionals. With the option of social media and the ever increasing following coupled with

time utilised on social media, this channel offered a perfect platform to create VW brand

awareness come a reality. This method has two major advantages. First, active research and analysis by

students enables them to acquire knowledge more easily and in greater detail than

teaching methods based purely on theory; in the latter case students remain

completely passive in the learning environment. Secondly, the analytical skills

acquired and developed in the context of a real life business situation are far more

important for making decisions than purely theoretical knowledge.

Question 1

Do potassium channel activators such as nicorandil have any benefit in

the treatment of a diabetic patient with cardiovascular complications?

Question 2

Is a dosage of 2.5 mg/day of methyltestosterone, as a component in

some multivitamin formulae, safe to give to diabetics or will it make the

diabetes more difficult to control (see also Chapter 5, question 5)?

Question 3

How does diabetes mellitus cause atherosclerosis?

Question 4

How does diabetes cause renal damage, especially diabetic nephropathy

with the presence of microalbuminuria?

Question 5

Type 1 diabetes causes nephropathy in 40% of cases and type 2 causes it

in 20% of cases but the most common cause of nephropathy we see is

type 2, why?

Question 6

Why is intractable vomiting seen in diabetes mellitus and how can it be

managed?

Question 7

Is gabapentin superior to carbamazepine in terms of efficacy in the

treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy? What are its side-effects?

Question 8

Why is diabetic ketoacidosis more common in type 1 diabetes?

Question 9

Why is there abdominal pain in diabetic ketoacidosis?

Question 10

Grades of ketonuria are sometimes mentioned. I have not been able to

locate a detailed description in textbooks and would be grateful if you

could explain the grades of ketonuria or recommend suitable reading

material.