A 47-year-old woman presents to the clinic for her annual visit. Her last fasting blood glucose on her last visit showed she has borderline diabetes. She tried to make lifestyle changes to improve her blood sugars. However, her fasting blood glucose is 215mg\dL this year. She is started on metformin and encouraged to live a healthier lifestyle. What is a side effect associated with metformin?

A 47-year-old woman presents to the clinic for her annual visit. Her last fasting blood glucose on her last visit showed she has borderline diabetes. She tried to make lifestyle changes to improve her blood sugars. However, her fasting blood glucose is 215mg\dL this year. She is started on metformin and encouraged to live a healthier lifestyle. What is a side effect associated with metformin?

A 33-year-old woman presents with tachycardia, heat intolerance, tremor, and unintentional weight loss. Her TSH level is markedly elevated. Her physician prescribes a drug that will block TSH release. Which drug is this?

A 64-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician for follow-up. She is being treated for a ventricular arrhythmia. She is placed on a new medication and now complains of feeling tired. She also has diarrhea and weight loss. She also feels very anxious and nervous. Laboratory studies indicate low thyroxin and elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone levels. Which of the following antiarrhythmic drugs is the likely cause of these signs and symptoms?

A 42-year-old man with hypertriglyceridemia comes from a family with the same abnormality as his brother, sister, father, and father's brother. He presents to a primary care physician in a new city. Which of the following is the most cost-effective treatment of this condition?

A 57-year-old woman with elevated triglycerides and cholesterol takes a medication that binds bile acids in the intestine, thus preventing their return to the liver via the enterohepatic circulation. This description suggests that the patient is taking which of the following medications?