Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized
by hyperglycemia resulting from defective insulin secretion, resistance
to insulin action or both (Khan et al., 2012). Diabetes is a
deadly disease that affected an estimated 285 million people worldwide
in 2010 and the number is increasing in rural and poor populations
throughout the world and is projected to become one of the
world’s main disablers and killers within the next 25 years (Shaw
et al., 2010). Hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia are two important
characters of diabetes mellitus, an endocrine based disease.
Currently available therapy for diabetes includes insulin and various
oral hypoglycemic agents such as sulfonylureas, metformin