People with type II diabetes mellitus have defective insulin receptors that cannot respond to insulin properly. Relative to normal individuals, what would be the effect on blood glucose levels under conditions of chronic stress that kept blood cortisol levels high

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"A. less decrease in blood glucose levels in individuals with type II diabetes mellitus than in normal individuals . B. a greater increase in blood glucose levels in individuals with type II diabetes mellitus than in normal individuals . C. be a greater decrease in blood glucose levels in individuals with type II diabetes mellitus than in normal individuals . D. less increase in blood glucose levels in individ."

B. a greater increase in blood glucose levels in individuals with type II diabetes mellitus than in normal individuals

Explanation:

When people who do not have any type of diabetes experience chronic stress, leaving stress hormones, such as cortisol, in high concentrations in the blood, the blood glucose level becomes high. This is because stress hormones not only prevent the body from producing insulin to regulate blood glucose, but also prevent the insulin already produced from functioning properly.

However, in normal people stress increases blood glucose to a lesser extent than stress would increase in a person with type II diabetes mellitus, they already have defective insulin receptors. In other words, in situations of chronic stress, there will be a greater increase in blood glucose levels in individuals with type II diabetes mellitus than in normal individuals.