🍬Diabetes

#1Body weight[1, 2]+628%

Across 18 prospective cohorts restricted to higher-quality studies, people who were overweight developed type 2 diabetes about three times as often as normal-weight adults, and people with obesity (BMI 30 and over, one pooled band) about seven times as often.

How would you describe your weight?

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#2Diabetes in the family[3]+510%

In the Framingham Offspring Study, having one parent with type 2 diabetes roughly tripled to quadrupled the odds of developing it, and having both parents raised it about sixfold.

Any parents or siblings with type 2 diabetes?

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#3Waistline[4]≈+61%

Across 78 cohorts, each 10 cm more waist circumference went with 61% more type 2 diabetes, a steeper gradient than BMI alone because it tracks the visceral fat around organs.

How’s your waistline?

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#4High blood pressure[5]+77%

Across 30 prospective studies and 285,000 people, each 20 mmHg of usual systolic pressure went with 77% more new type 2 diabetes, echoed in a separate 4.1-million-person cohort from the same paper.

What’s your blood pressure like?

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#5Sedentary time[6]≈+73%

Across 8 cohorts and 176,000 people, each extra 2 hours a day of television went with 20% more type 2 diabetes.

How many hours a day are you sitting?

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#6Depression[7]+60%

Across 13 prospective studies, people with depression developed type 2 diabetes 60% more often than people without it, after adjusting for the usual risk factors.

How often do you feel down or depressed?

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#7Sleep length[8]+48%

Across 13 cohorts and 108,000 people, short sleepers (around 5 to 6 hours or less) developed type 2 diabetes 28% more often than people sleeping about 7 hours, and long sleepers (around 8 to 9 hours or more) 48% more often.

How much sleep do you usually get?

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#8Sleep apnea[9]+40%

Across 16 cohorts and 339,000 people, obstructive sleep apnea went with 40% more type 2 diabetes than no apnea, rising further with how severe it was.

Do you snore loudly or wake up gasping?

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#9Little whole grain[10]−32%

Across 10 cohort studies, each 3 servings a day of whole grains went with 32% less type 2 diabetes, while refined grains showed no such benefit.

How much fiber do you eat (whole grains, beans, fruit, vegetables)?

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#10Alcohol[11, 12, 13]−28%

Across 38 studies and 1.9 million people, type 2 diabetes incidence traces a J shape against alcohol, lowest around 10–14 g a day and rising back up above 63 g/day [11].

How much alcohol do you drink?

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#11Sugary drinks[14, 15]+26%

Across 310,000 people, one to two sugary drinks a day went with 26% more type 2 diabetes than rarely drinking them.

How often do you drink sugary drinks?

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#12Secondhand smoke[16]+22%

In the same review, non-smokers regularly exposed to other people’s smoke developed type 2 diabetes 22% more often than unexposed non-smokers.

How often are you around other people’s smoke?

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#13Processed meat[17]+19%

Across 20 studies and 1.2 million people, each daily serving of processed meat (bacon, deli meat, sausage) went with 19% more type 2 diabetes, while unprocessed red meat carried no significant excess in the same review.

How often do you eat processed meat (bacon, deli, sausage)?

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#14Smoking[16]+14%

Across 88 studies and 5.9 million people, current smokers developed type 2 diabetes 37% more often than never smokers overall, and former smokers 14% more often, with the excess fading over time since quitting.

Do you smoke?

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