A patient diagnosed with Graves disease is admitted to a medical-surgical unit. Which of the following symptoms would the nurse expect to find before treatment?

a. Weight gain, cold intolerance
b. Slow heart rate, rash
c. Skin hot and moist, rapid heart rate
d. Constipation, confusion

ANS: C
Symptoms of Graves disease include heat intolerance and increased tissue sensitivity to stimula-tion by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. Weight loss, rather than weight gain, and heat intolerance would result. Tachycardia, not slow heart rate, would occur. Diarrhea would occur as opposed to constipation.