Diabetes mellitus can be dened as a group of metabolic disorders characterized by high blood glucose concentrations (1) . In general, type I diabetes is frequently associated with a deciency 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 decit of it (3) . On the other hand, gestational diabetes is dened 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) .