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A friend complains of blurred vision, cravings for sweets, weakness, and excessive thirst and urination. These symptoms are suggestive of:

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Comprehension-Level Multiple-Choice Items

A friend complains of blurred vision, cravings for sweets, weakness, and excessive thirst and urination. These symptoms are suggestive of:​

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The stem describes a friend with blurred vision, cravings for sweets, weakness, and excessive thirst and urination. These signs collectively point toward disturbances in glucose metabolism.
Option 1: 'heart disease.' While heart disease can cause fatigue, it does not typically produce the classic triad of polyuria, polydipsia, and spontaneous sweet cravings or blurred vision as core symptoms. This makes it an unlikely fit for the described state.
Option 2: 'fasting.' Fasting is a condition or action, not a syndrome presenting with multiple symptoms. It does not account for the specific combination of blurred vision, polyphagia (cravings for sweets), weakness, and polyuria, so this is not a good match.
Option 3: 'hypoglycemia.' Low blood glucose can cause sweating, confusion, tremors, and weakness, but the hallmark symptoms typically involve reduced glucose rather than cravings for sweets and excessive urination. Blurred vision and polydipsia are less characteristic of hypoglycemia, making this option less plausible for the described picture.
Option 4: 'diabetes.' The constellation of blurred vision, persistent thirst (polydipsia), increased urination (polyuria), and unexplained weakness strongly aligns with glycemic dysregulation seen in diabetes mellitus. This combination is a classic clinical cluster for the condition.
Option 5: 'lactose intolerance.' This condition causes gastrointestinal symptoms after dairy intake (bloating, diarrhea, gas) but does not explain blurred vision, persistent thirst, or polyuria. Therefore it does not fit the symptom set.
In summary, among the choices, the symptom cluster most coherently matches a problem with glucose control characteristic of diabetes, whereas the other options fail to explain one or more of the key features in the vignette.

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Comprehension-Level Multiple-Choice Items A friend complains of blurred vision, cravings for sweets, weakness, and excessive thirst and urination. These symptoms are suggestive of:

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