only begin to be understood and have not yet been fully integrated [1,2]. In particular, the relative contribution of altered bone microstructure and material properties versus bone mass in diabetes-related fractures has not yet been unequivocably proven. An intriguing question is whether there is really increased cortical porosity in diabetes, and if so, what are the mechanisms involved in consideration of the fact that poor glucose control has been associated with lower, rather than higher, bone turnover. Even more intriguing are recent reports suggesting that the bone alterations in diabetes are more prominent among subjects with microvascular complications, suggesting that impairment of vascularization to the skeleton, in particular osteoblasts and osteocytes, could play an important role in the pathophysiology of bone fragility in diabetes. The relative paucity of bone biopsy studies in this area certainly does not help clarify whether bone fragility in diabetes is the expression of alterations that mirror those found in common osteoporosis, albeit perhaps in different proportions (bone quality changes disproportionately greater than bone mineral mass changes)-in which case we could qualify this bone fragility as "diabetoporosis (DIO)," by analogy to "GIOP," or whether specific alterations in the bone/bone marrow of diabetic patients occur that are not found in common osteoporosis, in which case we should call this type of bone fragility "diabetic bone disease (DBD)," by analogy to CKD-MBD. Another key question is regarding the role of osteocytes in this disorder, as they are involved in both the control of bone modeling and remodeling and in glucose homeostasis.From a clinical standpoint, there are many challenges as well. Both aBMD and FRAX underestimate fracture prediction in diabetic patients, particularly with type 2, and the addition of TBS brings only a marginal improvement to this evaluation. Hence, new clinical tools and adjusted Diabetes and osteoporosis are two of the most common chronic disorders which prevalence increases worldwide, eventually affecting hundreds of millions of people. The environmental, primarily nutritional, conditions that predispose to diabetes and osteoporosis, respectively, appear quite different, but there may be some common genetic factors predisposing to both disorders. Although the morphotype of subjects developing type 2 diabetes as a consequence of overweight and the metabolic syndrome seems protective against fractures, and is certainly far from the image of the frail elderly with bone fragility, type 2 diabetes is increasingly recognized as an independent risk factor for fractures-at least in the bone community, although not yet broadly recognized as a complication of glucose impairment in the diabetes community. The risk of fragility fractures is even higher among the leaner patients with type 1 diabetes, whose long-standing disease is associated with an up to fivefold higher hip fracture risk, which incidence starts to rise 10-15 years before the exponential rise...