Diabetes mellitus can be dened as a group of metabolic
disorders characterized by high blood glucose concentrations
(1) . In general, type I diabetes is frequently associated with a
deciency secondary to the destruction of insulin-producing β
cells (2) . Meanwhile, type II diabetes is the result of a
progressive increase in insulin resistance with a relative
decit of it (3) . On the other hand, gestational diabetes is
dened by The American Diabetes Association (ADA) as one
that is diagnosed in the second or third trimester that is not
clearly type 1 or type 2 diabetes (4) .
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