Diabetes mellitus (DM) often simply known as diabetes—is a group of metabolic diseases. The most burning problem in India is ‘Metabolic Syndrome’. One of these is the DM, calling India the diabetes Capital of the world as there is an alarming rise in prevalence of diabetes, which has gone beyond epidemic to the pandemic one. For every 10 s a person dies from diabetic related causes in the world. DM is a metabolic disorder which characterizes the inability of the pancreas to control blood glucose concentration. This problem results in blood glucose levels moving out of normal range [1].

The classification of diabetes falls under 3 categories:

Other forms of DM include congenital diabetes occurs due to genetic defects of insulin secretion, cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, diabetes (steroidal) induced by high doses of glucocorticoids, and other forms of monogenic diabetes.

All forms of diabetes are treatable to an extent since insulin became available in 1921, and type 2 diabetes may be controlled with proper timely medications. Both type 1 and 2 DM are chronic conditions that usually cannot be cured but prevented to some extent. The transplantations of Pancreas have been tried with limited success in type 1 DM but gastric bypass surgery has been successful in many with morbid obesity and type 2 DM. Gestational type of DM usually resolves after delivery. Diabetes without proper treatments can cause many complications. Acute complications include hypoglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, or nonketotic hyperosmolar coma. Serious long-term complications in DM include more chances of cardiovascular disease, chronic renal failure, and retinal damage. Adequate treatment of diabetes is thus very much of important, as well as blood pressure control and lifestyle factors such as smoking and maintaining a healthy body weight [2, 3].