BIOMEDICINE NCCAOM LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Which tests are used to monitor the effects of iron therapy - ✔✔Hemoglobin and
reticulocyte levels
✔✔Which of the following iron related blood test is the most accurate indicator of iron
deficiency - ✔✔Ferrit
✔✔Sickle cell anemia causes: - ✔✔Hemolytic anemia
✔✔Taking Coumadin and B12 bad because? - ✔✔Might increase risk of clotting
✔✔Vitamin K deficiency can result in what? - ✔✔Hemorrhage
✔✔Vitamin K is produced by? - ✔✔Large intestinal bacteria
✔✔A patient has blood clotting problem, the disease? - ✔✔Thrombopenia or
thrombocytopenia
✔✔Medicine for hypertension: - ✔✔Diuretics
Beta blockers
ACE inhibitors
Angiotensin II receptor blockers
Calcium channel blockers
Alpha blockers
Alpha-2 receptor agonist
Central agonists
Peripheral adrenergic inhibitors
Vasodilators
✔✔What is primary cause of secondary hypertension? - ✔✔Renal and endocrine
diseases
✔✔Which drug can treat high cholesterol? - ✔✔HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor & Niacin
(B3)
✔✔The generic name of medications that lower the cholesterol level often end in: - ✔✔-
statin
✔✔An old lady has poor vision, narrow central vision, has history of 15 years smoking.
What kind of problem? (usually old age w/history of smoking): - ✔✔Macular
degeneration
,✔✔Macular degeneration - ✔✔loss of central vision
✔✔A patient comes to you with complaining of dizziness and hearing loss what do you
suspect is the cause? - ✔✔Meniere's
✔✔Hyperpituitarism - ✔✔Excessive production of growth hormone
✔✔Patient comes in with Type I Diabetes (side effect) for 10 years. What is a
reasonable expectation of treatment? - ✔✔Treat diabetic circulatory problems.
✔✔Diabetes mellitus 20 years, most serious complication? - ✔✔Peripheral neuropathy
✔✔Chronic Diabetic patient testing to check blood sugar level: - ✔✔HbA1C Hemoglobin
✔✔Which hormone when high can cause hypercalcemia - ✔✔Parathyroid hormone
✔✔What hormone helps absorb calcium in intestines? - ✔✔PTH
✔✔Calcitonin, a hormone involved in the regulation of calcium metabolism, is secreted
by the? - ✔✔parathyroid gland
✔✔Goiter is caused by: - ✔✔Iodine deficiency
✔✔Older woman 60's, fatigue, pale and puffy, dry skin and hair. What disease? -
✔✔Myxedema (hypothyroidism)
✔✔Potassium deficiencies with high BP - ✔✔Aldosterone too high becasue of Adrenal
cortex tumor (adenoma) = Conns syndrome
✔✔Aldosterone - what it does and where its from: - ✔✔Raises blood pressure;
Released by Adrenal cortex tumor
✔✔DHEA = a narural steroid hormone produced from cholesterol in which organs -
✔✔adrenal glands, gonads, and brain
✔✔What drug is a risk for osteoporosis? - ✔✔Steroids
✔✔Addison's disease - ✔✔Adrenal insufficiency
✔✔A young female patient, who has suffered from an autoimmune disease, and is
being treated with a glucocorticoid, shows the appearance of a moon shape face,
buffalo hump, and truncal obesity. This is typical case of? - ✔✔Cushing's syndrome
, ✔✔Oral contraceptive Pills (OCP) feedback - ✔✔Inhibition on LH and FSH
✔✔50 year old woman present with irregular menstrual period, hot flashes, night
sweats, mood swings, and insomnia. A preliminary diagnosis of perimenopausal
syndrome is made. Which hormones are expected to have and elevated level? - ✔✔LH
and FSH
✔✔Progesterone is released from where after ovulation? - ✔✔Corpus luteum
✔✔What should you look for in a women taking estrogen therapy - ✔✔Shortness of
breath
✔✔Which hormone level is high in PCOS? - ✔✔Testoterone (adrogen)
✔✔Female patient 28, hysteria, pain, increased testosterone. Probably has: - ✔✔PCOS
✔✔43 years old female patient has symptoms of high level of androgen, irregular
menses, and ovarian polyps, what test should be done to confirm the diagnosis
(PCOS)? - ✔✔Ultrasound
✔✔How to view ovaries (for PCOS) - ✔✔Ultrasound
✔✔Bronchoscope is used for all the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Esophagus - by
Endoscopy
✔✔To see external of lungs: - ✔✔pleuroscopy
✔✔A patient calls you the day after treatment complaining of tightness in the chest and
SOB, you preformed a front thoracic treatment on him the day before, what test should
he have? - ✔✔Chest radiography
✔✔Which of the following drugs is an inhaled steroid, used to reduce inflammation in
asthma? - ✔✔Beclomethasone (Apo-Beclomethasone)
✔✔Ketoacidosis related to Hyperventilation - ✔✔the body compensate for the acidosis
by hypertension
✔✔A patient presents with fever and cough. Physical exam shows crackles on the left
lung. What does the patient have? - ✔✔Lobar pneumonia
✔✔Fever, cough, possibly with or without sputum, pain in chest...upon referral. What is
the diagnosis - ✔✔Pneumonia
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Which tests are used to monitor the effects of iron therapy - ✔✔Hemoglobin and
reticulocyte levels
✔✔Which of the following iron related blood test is the most accurate indicator of iron
deficiency - ✔✔Ferrit
✔✔Sickle cell anemia causes: - ✔✔Hemolytic anemia
✔✔Taking Coumadin and B12 bad because? - ✔✔Might increase risk of clotting
✔✔Vitamin K deficiency can result in what? - ✔✔Hemorrhage
✔✔Vitamin K is produced by? - ✔✔Large intestinal bacteria
✔✔A patient has blood clotting problem, the disease? - ✔✔Thrombopenia or
thrombocytopenia
✔✔Medicine for hypertension: - ✔✔Diuretics
Beta blockers
ACE inhibitors
Angiotensin II receptor blockers
Calcium channel blockers
Alpha blockers
Alpha-2 receptor agonist
Central agonists
Peripheral adrenergic inhibitors
Vasodilators
✔✔What is primary cause of secondary hypertension? - ✔✔Renal and endocrine
diseases
✔✔Which drug can treat high cholesterol? - ✔✔HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor & Niacin
(B3)
✔✔The generic name of medications that lower the cholesterol level often end in: - ✔✔-
statin
✔✔An old lady has poor vision, narrow central vision, has history of 15 years smoking.
What kind of problem? (usually old age w/history of smoking): - ✔✔Macular
degeneration
,✔✔Macular degeneration - ✔✔loss of central vision
✔✔A patient comes to you with complaining of dizziness and hearing loss what do you
suspect is the cause? - ✔✔Meniere's
✔✔Hyperpituitarism - ✔✔Excessive production of growth hormone
✔✔Patient comes in with Type I Diabetes (side effect) for 10 years. What is a
reasonable expectation of treatment? - ✔✔Treat diabetic circulatory problems.
✔✔Diabetes mellitus 20 years, most serious complication? - ✔✔Peripheral neuropathy
✔✔Chronic Diabetic patient testing to check blood sugar level: - ✔✔HbA1C Hemoglobin
✔✔Which hormone when high can cause hypercalcemia - ✔✔Parathyroid hormone
✔✔What hormone helps absorb calcium in intestines? - ✔✔PTH
✔✔Calcitonin, a hormone involved in the regulation of calcium metabolism, is secreted
by the? - ✔✔parathyroid gland
✔✔Goiter is caused by: - ✔✔Iodine deficiency
✔✔Older woman 60's, fatigue, pale and puffy, dry skin and hair. What disease? -
✔✔Myxedema (hypothyroidism)
✔✔Potassium deficiencies with high BP - ✔✔Aldosterone too high becasue of Adrenal
cortex tumor (adenoma) = Conns syndrome
✔✔Aldosterone - what it does and where its from: - ✔✔Raises blood pressure;
Released by Adrenal cortex tumor
✔✔DHEA = a narural steroid hormone produced from cholesterol in which organs -
✔✔adrenal glands, gonads, and brain
✔✔What drug is a risk for osteoporosis? - ✔✔Steroids
✔✔Addison's disease - ✔✔Adrenal insufficiency
✔✔A young female patient, who has suffered from an autoimmune disease, and is
being treated with a glucocorticoid, shows the appearance of a moon shape face,
buffalo hump, and truncal obesity. This is typical case of? - ✔✔Cushing's syndrome
, ✔✔Oral contraceptive Pills (OCP) feedback - ✔✔Inhibition on LH and FSH
✔✔50 year old woman present with irregular menstrual period, hot flashes, night
sweats, mood swings, and insomnia. A preliminary diagnosis of perimenopausal
syndrome is made. Which hormones are expected to have and elevated level? - ✔✔LH
and FSH
✔✔Progesterone is released from where after ovulation? - ✔✔Corpus luteum
✔✔What should you look for in a women taking estrogen therapy - ✔✔Shortness of
breath
✔✔Which hormone level is high in PCOS? - ✔✔Testoterone (adrogen)
✔✔Female patient 28, hysteria, pain, increased testosterone. Probably has: - ✔✔PCOS
✔✔43 years old female patient has symptoms of high level of androgen, irregular
menses, and ovarian polyps, what test should be done to confirm the diagnosis
(PCOS)? - ✔✔Ultrasound
✔✔How to view ovaries (for PCOS) - ✔✔Ultrasound
✔✔Bronchoscope is used for all the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Esophagus - by
Endoscopy
✔✔To see external of lungs: - ✔✔pleuroscopy
✔✔A patient calls you the day after treatment complaining of tightness in the chest and
SOB, you preformed a front thoracic treatment on him the day before, what test should
he have? - ✔✔Chest radiography
✔✔Which of the following drugs is an inhaled steroid, used to reduce inflammation in
asthma? - ✔✔Beclomethasone (Apo-Beclomethasone)
✔✔Ketoacidosis related to Hyperventilation - ✔✔the body compensate for the acidosis
by hypertension
✔✔A patient presents with fever and cough. Physical exam shows crackles on the left
lung. What does the patient have? - ✔✔Lobar pneumonia
✔✔Fever, cough, possibly with or without sputum, pain in chest...upon referral. What is
the diagnosis - ✔✔Pneumonia
