Why people with Diabetes are more likely to develop Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)?

So, if patients with diabetes don't look after their blood sugar as well, then they have a predisposition to developing arterial disease. There are certain things, whether these things are genetic things, or whether they are things from the environment, or things that the patients do that can put you at increased risk of arterial disease. Some of them are things which you may know of like high blood pressure, high cholesterol but also diabetes also fits into that pattern and another common one is smoking.