A 54-year-old woman presents to the primary care clinic with hot flashes and irregular menstrual cycles. These symptoms started about 3 months ago and have worsened recently. She has always had regular menstrual cycles until 3 months ago. She would like to start hormone replacement therapy but estrogen only. What is a common side effect of unopposed estrogen replacement therapy?

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Question 1 of 5

A 54-year-old woman presents to the primary care clinic with hot flashes and irregular menstrual cycles. These symptoms started about 3 months ago and have worsened recently. She has always had regular menstrual cycles until 3 months ago. She would like to start hormone replacement therapy but estrogen only. What is a common side effect of unopposed estrogen replacement therapy?

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 2 of 5

A blood test in performed on a patient and it discovered that the patient has very low levels of sodium. It is also known that the patient has just undergone an operation. In addition he appears to have a small cell tumor of the lung. Which of the following conditions is most linked to the disease the patient has?

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 3 of 5

A 54-year-old man has insulin-dependent diabetes. He desires to take insulin detemir because of its efficacy and ease of dosing. This would be represented as which of the following labels on the above diagram?

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 4 of 5

A patient presents with increased growth of skeletal and soft tissue, hypertension, arthritis, menstrual disturbances, and diabetes mellitus. Upon administration of oral glucose, which of the following levels would increase?

Correct Answer: B

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Question 5 of 5

A patient presents with hypertension, anxiety, palpitations, headache, excessive sweating, and arrhythmias. There appears to be increased levels of catecholamines. The other diseases that also occur in the same area as this tumor would be:

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

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