Glycemic control, depression, diabetes distress among adolescents with type 2 diabetes: effects of sex, race, insurance, and obesity.

Aims: To determine (1) differences in depression and distress scores between adolescents with type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), (2) how socioeconomic factors, obesity, race, and treatment regimen affect depression and diabetes distress in adolescent T2D, (3) the relationships between depression and diabetes distress scores in adolescents with T2D, and (4) how depression and diabetes distress scores relate to current and future glycemic control in adolescents with T2D.

Background: Diabetes distress is a negative emotional reaction to diabetes complications, self-management demands, unresponsive providers, poor interpersonal relationships, and to diabetes itself. It is frequently mistaken for depression and the two are interrelated.

Neurothekeoma: Report of two cases in children and review of the literature.

Neurothekeomas, or simply nerve sheath myxomas, are rare benign skin neoplasms. They are believed to derive from peripheral nerve sheath transformation and are typically more prevalent in females. They tend to be found mainly on the upper limbs as well as head and neck locations.