Ascension Seton Hays recognizes World Diabetes Day

To recognize World Diabetes Day on November 14, Ascension Seton Hays will host free diabetes risk assessments for type 2 diabetes and a healthy lunch and dinner, open to the public, patients and employees.

Worlds Diabetes Day was created in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. It is marked every year on November 14, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.

Additionally, Ascension Seton Hays will glow blue for Diabetes Awareness Month, which takes place throughout the month of November.

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 30.3 million people, or 9.4 percent of the United States population, have diabetes. Approximately 7.2 million people who have
diabetes have not yet been diagnosed.