What Sugar Does to Your Arteries

Probably the biggest damage from high amounts of sugar in the blood, with a diabetic, is done to your vascular system.

There are two types of damage to you vascular system:

1. the macro vascular system, with the large vessels and
2. the micro vascular system with small capillaries.

In the large vessels there is the coronary artery that supplies the heart muscle and there are peripheral arteries throughout body. There is also the micro vascular system that goes to the retina of the eye or the kidney.