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Council Member Narcisse discusses diabetes and limb amputations with Acting Commissioner Morse
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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse engages in a Q&A session with Acting Commissioner Michelle Morse about diabetes and related limb amputations in New York City. They discuss current statistics, racial inequities, and initiatives to address the issue, including a proposed guaranteed basic income pilot in The Bronx.
- Approximately 800,000 New Yorkers (11%) reported having diabetes in 2022
- Significant racial inequities exist in amputation rates across the city
- A citywide diabetes reduction plan progress report is due on April 1
- The discussion touches on the Healthy NYC initiative and its relation to diabetes prevention
Mercedes Narcisse
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Council member Narcis?
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Thank you, thank you.
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Thank you, cheers, and thank you Mr.
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Anderson for giving us all the data and how we're spending our money, and of course our commissioner Morse, you for being here again.
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I have a question on diabetes and related with our limb amputations.
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Do we have an increase in the City Of New York?
Michelle Morse
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Thank you for your question about diabetes.
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This is an area certainly of concern for us as well.
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There are about eight hundred thousand New Yorkers who reported that they had diabetes from our 2022 data and about eleven that's about eleven percent of New Yorkers.
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We do see significant racial inequities in the rates of amputation across New York City, and we're happy to share some of that information and follow-up.
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We're also, of course, required by law to under local law 52, we're required to release a progress report on the citywide diabetes reduction plan, and that would have, again, more information about some of the programs and data as well.
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And that report is due on April 1.
Mercedes Narcisse
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On April 1.
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How does that tie with healthy NYC to you?
Michelle Morse
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Absolutely.
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It is intimately related.
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Cardiovascular, cardiometabolic, and diabetes related diseases are the number one killer of New Yorkers.
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So we do see diabetes as well as cardiometabolic disease as a top priority.
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And we did just release an extensive chronic disease report at the January that really does describe a number of the main issues that we see with chronic disease across the city, the inequities we see in chronic disease, and it proposes 19 initiatives to really advance the city's response to diabetes prevention and addressing chronic disease prevention and chronic disease management across the city.
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Included within that is a number of diabetes initiatives.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Can you walk me through some of the initiatives?
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Because especially in the way you see the increase.
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I'm assuming it's a lot that has to do with the chronic illnesses in black and brown communities.
Michelle Morse
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That's correct.
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One of the initiatives that we proposed in the chronic disease plan is that we start a guaranteed basic income pilot in The Bronx.
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The Bronx has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the whole entire city.
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And through this pilot program, were it to be funded, we would look at the ways in which guaranteed basic income address and meet the needs of New Yorkers with diabetes, and hopefully demonstrates an improved set of outcomes for their diabetes and for their health overall.
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Guaranteed basic income has been looked at in a number of areas, but it has not been looked at specifically for chronic disease.
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So we would be very excited to speak with counsel more about this initiative and what it would take to move it forward.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Surprisingly, we have an increase in Manhattan as well.
Michelle Morse
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In diabetes specifically?
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Amputation too.
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Okay, I'm happy to follow-up with any more information about amputations
Sandy Nurse
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for sure.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Okay, can you send us a breakdown to our borrowers specifically so we'll have, especially those related to diabetes, the imputation related to diabetes.
Michelle Morse
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Yes, will be included in our annual report.
Mercedes Narcisse
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All our borrowers and five years if possible, so we can have a better look at it?
Michelle Morse
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We can, yes, we can follow-up on that.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Alright, so thank you chairs.
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Don't want to take any load.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate your time Doctor.
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Morris.
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Thank you.