“…Diabetes mellitus is an ancient metabolic disorder, dating from 1500 B.C, when it was referred to for the first known time in the Egyptian Papyrus Ebers as a disease accompanied by polyuria, demanding due treatment (1, 2). It is basically characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, associated with disturbances in the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids, as a result of absolute or relative insulin deficiency (3, 4).…”