Tebé C, Martínez-Laguna D, Carbonell-Abella C, et al. – In a population-based cohort from Catalonia, Spain, that included 44,802 individuals aged 65-80 years with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and 81,233 matched controls, researchers investigated the relationship between T2D and the transition to hip fracture, post-hip fracture mortality, and hip fracture–free all-cause death. A total of 23,818 died without fracturing and 3,317 broke a hip, of whom 838 subsequently died. Thus, T2D individuals are at elevated risk of hip fracture, post-hip fracture mortality, and hip fracture–free death. Following adjustment, men with T2D were found to be at a 28% greater risk of dying subsequently to suffering a hip fracture; women had a 57% excess risk of post-hip fracture mortality.