Forty-three postmenopausal women with osteopenia or osteoporosis (20 controls – group CO – and 23 diabetic – group T2D) were subjected to a standard mixed meal tolerance test, with determination of serum CTX, plasma osteocalcin and serum GLP-2 concentrations at baseline and 30, 60, 120 and 180 minutes after the meal. This evidence concerns the gene BGLAP and type 2 diabetes mellitus.