How does my blood sugar level effect my chances of getting PAD?

How does my blood sugar level effect my chances of getting PAD?

Rose Marie Robertson, MD, FAHA, FACC, FESC (Chief Science Officer and Past President of the Board of American Heart Association) gives expert video advice on: How is peripheral arterial disease tested and diagnosed?; How is peripheral arterial disease treated? and more...

Since diabetes is an important risk factor for peripheral arterial disease, having an elevated blood sugar level certainly affects the chance of getting peripheral arterial disease and having it progress. If you have diabetes, or even a slightly abnormal plasma glucose, it's important for that to be controlled so that full-fledged diabetes doesn't develop, and so that if there is diabetes, it's controlled as well as possible.