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Addressing Diabetes, Heart Health Go Hand-in-Hand for American Heart Month

By Dr. Edleen Sarette-Exama, DNP, MSN RN, Care Coordinator, VNS Health Health Plans  Bronx Voice  February 18, 2025 BRONX - While February is Heart Health Month, given the statistics, heart health should really be a priority all year long.  In New York State alone, almost 18% of adults 65 and older report they have some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and 27% of all deaths are the result of CVD. And here’s another alarming fact: While many factors can increase the chances of cardiovascular disease and stroke, people with diabetes have twice the chance of developing CVD compared to the population as a whole. As a registered nurse and care manager at the home- and community-based health care nonprofit VNS Health, I work with individuals who often suffer from multiple chronic illnesses. Diabetes in particular is  common, especially among people of color. Diabetes is a challenging disease to manage, and it can fee...
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Food Delivery Worker Mugged for his Moped

Muggers Give Middle Finger to Victim

Cops are looking for a suspect who wore a shirt giving a middle finger to the world, in connection with a mugging of a food delivery worker in the Bronx.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 21, 2022


BRONX - A trio of muggers give the middle finger to authorities as they beat and rob a hard working delivery worker of his electric moped during a mugging in the Bronx. Police released surveillance video of the three men they are looking for in connection with the attack - one of the suspect wore a shirt with a drawing of the middle finger.




Investigators said the mugging took place last month in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Cops are hoping residents recognize the suspects in the video and notify authorities.




At around 3:15 am on September 10, a 32-year-old food delivery worker drove his electric moped to an deliver order to 1095 Colgate Avenue across the street from a charter school.


  

Police are looking for these men in connection with the robbery of a food delivery worker.












In front of the location three men met the delivery worker. They began to beat the victim and then threw him off his moped.




The muggers took the delivery worker’s cell phone and his electric moped which is valued at $1,500.


The attackers fled down Colgate Avenue with the electric moped.



The victim did not request medical treatment.


Anyone with information should call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls remain confidential.




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