Your risk of developing coronary artery disease and high blood pressure greatly increases with uncontrolled diabetes.

It is an important yet a difficult task for family physicians to efficiently manage chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart diseases and ischemic cerebrovascular diseases.

Obesity has been linked to development of hypertension, diabetes, and coronary artery disease in older age, which could have an indirect detrimental effect on the brain, they noted.