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JGIBBSON

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A client is admitted with persistent diarrhea and a weight loss of 10 pounds. What would the nurse recognize as the significance of the weight loss if the client stated that he had lost the weight over the past 3 months?
 
  A) Signifies a chronic versus acute condition
  B) Signifies that it was an intentional weight loss
  C) Signifies there is no nutritional deficit
  D) Signifies an ongoing acute condition

Question 2

When does the body break down fatty acids incompletely creating an increase in ketone formation?
 
  A) Starvation and uncontrolled diabetes
  B) Periods of a high-fat intake
  C) Coronary heart disease
  D) Fat malabsorption syndromes


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Reply #1 on: Aug 2, 2018
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A weight loss that occurs relatively rapidly is due to an acute condition versus weight loss that occurs over time. The latter could be caused by a deliberate change in eating habits, or it could have a physiologic cause such as cancer. Anything that occurs over time is considered chronic rather than acute.

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Reply 2 on: Aug 2, 2018
:D TYSM

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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