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California Observes World Diabetes Day
Aims to Get 14,000 People to Take Diabetes Risk Assessment Test

What is World Diabetes Day?

World Diabetes Day is a world health day bringing together millions of people in over 160 countries each year on November 14, to help communities prevent diabetes and to improve care for those living with diabetes.

On November 14, landmarks across the world are lit blue - the color of the global symbol for diabetes—and communities host hundreds of events to bring diabetes to light.

Our Goal: Get 14,000 people to take the ADA diabetes risk test by World Diabetes Day, November 14th.

The Impact of Diabetes

• Million lives are lost annually
• There are 1 million amputations a year
• Diabetes is responsible for $millions in lost income and productivity
• Diabetes kills 1 person every 8 seconds
• Every 10 seconds two people develop diabetes
• California has more new cases of diabetes each year than any other state in the nation

In California, the incidence of diabetes has grown by 40% in the last 10 years and costs the state more that $25 billion annually. These staggering numbers illustrate our compelling need to educate our community about how to reduce risk.

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About Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI)

CHORI, the research branch of Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland, is ranked 5th in the nation for NIH funding of pediatric research. With a working budget of over $40 million a year from both private and public sources, CHORI supports over 200 researchers and clinicians in state-of-the-art laboratory space. The ‘bench to bedside’ research they conduct stretches the boundaries of scientific inquiry and impacts health and wellness across the globe.

Within CHORI’s six renowned Research Centers, CHORI investigators probe all aspects of health and wellness, including asthma, birth defects, cancer, cardiac disease prevention, childhood obesity and diabetes, iron metabolism, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell anemia, and mechanisms of immunity and bacterial proliferation.

Working locally, healing globally, CHORI has taken translational research to new levels of success.