What Is Acanthosis Nigricans? - Dr. Cobin (VIDEO)

Dr. Cobin:

Acanthosis is an unusual skin condition where the skin becomes a little thickened and furrowed and oftentimes it’s a little bit discolored, anywhere from mildly tannish to actually dark, dark brown or almost black. And typically it occurs in the sides or back of the neck, but it can occur other places as well as the elbows, around the waist, around the belly button, and sometimes underneath the breasts, and that condition is actually a marker on the skin for abnormalities in insulin secretion that allow us to know that these women are actually making too much insulin because their body isn’t responding properly to the insulin that they make.

About Dr. Cobin, M.D., M.A.C.E.:
Dr. Rhoda Cobin is Past-President of the American College of Endocrinology, a Past-President of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), and a Master of the American College of Endocrinology (ACE). Dr. Cobin has been in private practice in northern New Jersey for 31 years. She is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and is Co-Chief of the Mount Sinai's Thyroid/Endocrinology Clinic.

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