Glossary

"Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, and was previously known as juvenile diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin."
American Diabetes Association

"Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. In type 2 diabetes, either the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin."
American Diabetes Association

"Depression is more than just sadness. People with depression may experience a lack of interest and pleasure in daily activities, significant weight loss or gain, insomnia or excessive sleeping, lack of energy, inability to concentrate, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide."
American Psychological Association

"HbA_1c is a lab test that shows the average amount of sugar in your blood over 3 months. It shows how well you are controlling your diabetes."
U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH

"PHQ-9 is the depression module [of the PRIME-MD diagnostic instrument for common mental disorders], which scores each of the 9 DSM-IV criteria as “0” (not at all) to “3” (nearly every day)....In addition to making criteria-based diagnoses of depressive disorders, the PHQ-9 is also a reliable and valid measure of depression severity. These characteristics plus its brevity make the PHQ-9 a useful clinical and research tool."
Society of General Internal Medicine